The Mineralogist K.G.Fiedler Claims La Off Of Fulgurites

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The Mineralogist K.G.Fiedler Claims La Off Of Fulgurites:
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The mineralogist KG Fiedler claims the discovery of fulgurites.The mineralogist KG Fiedler claims the discovery of fulgurites.

Document type : signed autograph letter and autograph piece

Number of documents: 2 - Number of pages: 6 - Size: In-4

Place : Paris

Date : 08/03/1843

RECIPIENT : [perhaps François Arago (1786/1853), who had published a work on lightning].

State : small tear at the fold

Letter from the German mineralogist Karl Gustav Fiedler who devoted himself to the study of fulgurites, these “lightning stones” produced by the impact of lightning on a rock or sand. “I read yesterday in your Treatise on Lightning that the one who translated the German of the Annals of Mr. Gilbert did me very wrong, I am sure that it is not your will; he says Mr. Hentzen had the honor of first discovering them and proving their origin. This is quite the opposite of what is found in the Annals of Physik […]. After Mr Gilbert spoke of the Fulgurits found in 1711 by Mr Hermann and preserved in the Museums of Dresden under the name Osteocolla Massliensis, Prof. Gilbert continues: “Thus Fulgurits have been found and preserved in mineral collections much earlier than hitherto believed, but were misunderstood in their nature. Mr. Hentzen has the credit of having found them today, and of having sensed that they were products of lightning, but Mr. Dr. Fiedler has the honor of having completely proved this origin”. Why does your translator want to take this away from me, who has pursued this subject since 1816, thus for 37 years, who has spent more than a thousand crowns to clarify this subject and has succeeded perfectly […]. I am appointed to have clarified this object in every German university in Berlin, Göttingen, Jena, Heidelberg, etc., etc. I am enclosing a list of my literary works to prove that I have worked more than on the Fulgurits […]”. He asks him to send the King a rare and interesting fulgurite with its notice, and attaches to his letter a list of his mineralogical publications.

Karl Gustav Fiedler (Bautzen, 1791/1853)German mineralogist, commissioner of mines of Saxony, specialist in fulgurites (materials produced by the impact of lightning).

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