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Title: Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds, Both in These Days, and in Antient Times

Author: Edward King

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Language: English

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REMARKS
CONCERNING
STONES
SAID TO HAVE FALLEN FROM THE CLOUDS, BOTH
IN THESE DAYS,
AND IN ANTIENT TIMES.

BY
EDWARD KING, ESQ. F. R. S. AND F. A. S.

Res ubi plurimum proficere, et valere possunt, collocari debent.
Cicero de Orat. 37.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR G. NICOL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS MAJESTY,
PALL-MALL.
1796.

[Illustration: F.1. F.3. F.2.]

_An Attempt to account for the Production of a Shower of Stones,
that fell in Tuscany, on the 16th of June, 1794; and to shew that
there are Traces of similar Events having taken place, in the
highest Ages of Antiquity. In the course of which Detail is also
inserted, an Account of an extraordinary Hail-stone, that fell, with
many others, in Cornwall, on the 20th of October, 1791._

Having received this last winter, from Sir Charles Blagden, some very
curious _manuscript_ accounts, concerning a surprising shower of stones;
which is said, on the testimony of several persons, to have fallen in
Tuscany, on the 16th of June, 1794;--and having also perused, with much
attention, a very interesting pamphlet, written in Italian, by _Abbate
Ambrose Soldani_, Professor of mathematics, in the University of Siena,
containing an extraordinary and full detail of such facts as could be
collected relating to this shower; the whole has appeared to me to
afford such an ample field for philosophical contemplation, and also for
the illustration of antient historic facts; th