A Siderite of the Fourteenth Century

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Oct 1944

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Nature, Volume 154, Issue 3910, pp. 465 (1944).

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IBN-BATTŪAH, the famous globe-trotter of the Middle Ages, in his travels from Tangier to China and West Africa (A.D. 1325-54), on reaching Birgi (the ancient Pyrgion in the valley of the Cayster-not far from the old Ephesus in Asia Minor), some time after 1332, was asked by the local sultan if he had ever seen a `stones' ``that had fallen from the sky''. When he replied in the negative, the sultan showed him the `stone' that had fallen some time ago outside the town, and ordered four stone-breakers to strike it vigorously with iron hammers. They did so, but with no effect. It weighed about a hundredweight and was ``very hard with a glitter in it''1. All this goes to suggest that it must have been a siderite. This fall is not mentioned in the list given in H. H. Nininger's ``Our Stone-Pelted Planet''2.

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