[meteorite-list] Weston meteorite fall 1807 .... SillimanandWoodhouse, RIVALRY or BAD SCIENCE????

[Mark Grossman]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Alan" <photophlow at yahoo.com>
To: <cspratt at islandnet.com>
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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 of the meteor, as yet unpublished was “altogether loose and not to be 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:
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> 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
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> Shawn Alan
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> Chris Spratt cspratt at islandnet.com
> Tue Feb 22 19:43:02 EST 2011
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