Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 279
eteoric irons,well illustrated on p. 225, and they are sections of planes ofcleavage, along which chemical change of some sort has takenplace. Their form and relative position are determined by thelaws of crystallography. The test of the Widmannstattian figures is not, however, regarded by modern… … PSEUDO-METEORIC 1R \itin AT oVIFAK, GREENLAND, IN 1*70 {Length, (AJcet; weight, 20 tons. Now in the Hall of tin- Royal Acad-emy, Stockholm) puted meteorites is shown in the annexed engraving. For along time these irons were thought to have had an extraterres-trial origin, but the opposite opinion…
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