Records of Fatalities from Falling Meteorites

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Oct 1935

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Nature, Volume 136, Issue 3441, pp. 607 (1935).

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WITH reference to the remark in NATURE of July 27, p. 128, in a notice of Prof. Heide's ``Kleine Meteoriten-kunde'' that ``it is reassuring to find that there is no certain evidence of any person having been killed by a falling meteorite'', may I direct attention to the following : (1) Humboldt in his ``Cosmos'', vol. 1 (English translation by E. C. Otté. London, Bohn, 1849, p. 124), writes : ``Several persons had been struck dead by stones falling from heaven, as for instance, a monk at Crema on September 4, 1511 ; another monk at Milan in 1650 and two Swedish sailors on board-ship in 1674''. (2) T. L. Phipson, in his ``Meteors, Aerolites and Falling Stars'' (p. 85) (London : Lovell Reeve, 1867), also mentions these incidents and describes particularly the Crema incident at great length, as the result of a meteoric shower, citing ``The Commentary'' of Surius, a Carthusian monk of Cologne, ``De Rerum Varietate'' of Jerome Cardan, and ``Opus Epistol-arum'' of Petrus Martyr ; and adds that ``birds, sheep and even some fish were killed by the shower''.

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