TY  - BOOK
AU  - British MuseumDepartment of Mineralogy
AU  - Fletcher,L.
TI  - An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites: With a List of the Meteorites Represented in the Collection
AV  - QE 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Meteorites
KW  - British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy
KW  - Meteorites -- Catalogs and collections
N1  - Release date is 2014-10-19; Produced by Eric Hutton and the Online Distributed
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N2  - "An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites" by L. Fletcher is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book serves as a guide for understanding meteorites, discussing their classification, properties, and historical context, specifically concerning the British Museum's collection.  The opening of the guide provides an overview of the misconceptions regarding meteorite falls, highlighting historical instances where such events were met with skepticism or attributed to supernatural causes. It outlines the gradual acceptance of meteorites as genuine phenomena, citing ancient records and early scientific investigations. Fletcher details the evolution of the British Museum's meteorite collection, emphasizing key players and significant acquisitions, setting the stage for a deeper exploration into specific meteorites, their composition, and the science behind them in the subsequent sections of the text. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47147
ER  -