[meteorite-list] Addendum (Warning - Original Radical Theory)

[Martin Altmann]

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