Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 280
mosphere and theheat due to atmospheric impact, and fall down upon the sur-face of the Earth, are known as (2) meteorites. Of the last thereare many classes, representing in all about 400 different falls,few of which were, however, actually seen to fall. The most Meteoric Bodies 221 celebrated… … THE PARIS COLLECTION OF METEORITES {In the Museum cTHistoire Naturelle, begun by Cordier and largelyaugmented by Daubree) Although the descent of meteoric bodies from the sky wasgenerally discredited till the beginning of the present century,still such falls have been recorded from the earliest…
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