Shawn,
Read my blog and the relationship between Adam Seybert and James Woodhouse.
Woodhouse beat out Seybert for a professorship of chemistry, and there was
bad blood between the two, and it was Seybert who was bad mouthing Woodhouse
to Silliman about Woodhouse's inability to analyze a meteorite. And Edgar
Fahs Smith frowned on Seybert's attacks on another paper of Woodhouse,
saying it was a spot on Seybert's reputation.
That's what history is all about. You have to look at all of the sources
you can, not just one, and figure out the motives of what people said and
did.
You missed that. Read the blog closely and carefully. It's all there if
you take the time to absorb it.
Again, see www.meteoritemanuscripts.blogspot.com
Mark
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From: "Shawn Alan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:27 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Weston meteorite fall 1807 ....
SillimanandWoodhouse, RIVALRY or BAD SCIENCE????
Chris and Listers,
LOL .... Yes another book please :) I am having a great time learning more
about the Weston fall and the roles that Silliman played and I think the
lack of roles Woodhouse played with the Weston meteorite fall. But again I
am not saying Woodhouse is a lesser scientist, only sticking with the
facts that be said......
"Edgar Fahs Smith, praises Woodhouse’s efforts in his field, although he
concedes that Woodhouse’s methods were faulty. Among his contemporaries
Woodhouse’s reputation as a chemist and mineralogist was not high…. In
January, 1808, with a manuscript account of the Weston meteorite, Silliman
did not show it to Woodhouse, being convinced that Woodhouses’s analysis
of the meteor, as yet unpublished was “altogether loose and not to be
depended on….Woodhouse did not know how to analyze a stone, and that he
had not a single sure test or agent of any kind to do it with”
Cited from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1969
Source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=BUsLAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA285&dq=Philadelphia%20Medical%20Museum%2C%205%2C%202%20(1808)%20woodhouse&pg=PA285#v=onepage&q=Philadelphia%20Medical%20Museum,%205,%202%20(1808)%20woodhouse&f=false
Shawn Alan
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Chris Spratt cspratt at islandnet.com
Tue Feb 22 19:43:02 EST 2011
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If you gentlemen keep this up we can get another book. Interesting read.
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