Meteors, Aerolites, and Falling Stars (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Meteors, Aerolites, and Falling Stars In the present work I propose to write the natural history of falling stars in the widest acceptation of the term. I have taken for model the justly celebrated little work of Francois Arago, entitled 'Notice sur le Tonnerre, ' in which that elegant writer made popular everything that is known concerning thunder and lightning. Before the appearance of that excellent little treatise in the pages of the 'Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes' for the year 1838, it may be safely asserted that little or nothing was known about thunder storms among "the masses of the people." What Arago did for the grand phenomenon of lightning, I will attempt to do for a class of natural phenomena still more impressive, until recently much less observed, considerably rarer, and those, who have had the good fortune to witness in all its grandeur only one luminous meteor, will not hesitate in classing it among the most wonderful and astonishing spectacles that nature can present to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.