Little addendum, Doug: >It is often cited that his interest in meteoritics was suddenly fomented by conversations with Georg Christoph >Lichtenberg in 1791-1793. But Lichtenberg himself had nothing to say about it,
Chladni describes in the beginning of his big work: "Ueber Feuer-Meteore , und Über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen" of 1819, on page 6-8, how Lichtenberg brought him to meteorites. (With a funny footnote, how aghast Lichtenberg reacted on his first publication of 1794). It's available in Google books. Best! Martin ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
