Fall of an Aerolite, 1628

Abstract

YOUR correspondent T. W. Webb may be glad to know that a graphic account of the Aerolite he refers to (NATURE, July 14) as having fallen in Berkshire in 1628, will be found in Vol. II. of Chambers' Papers for the People, published 1850, in an article entitled “Memorabilia of the 17th Century,” p. 10. This article also contains many other very extraordinary and well-described accounts of earthquakes, floods, mirages, and various startling atmospheric phenomena which occurred during the 17th century. Amongst the latter the accounts of parhelia, or mock suns, and haloes, and the falls of two or three aerolites, are worth noticing.