[meteorite-list] T-shirt (and French Fall)

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 01:53:45 +0100
Message-ID: <006e01cde94c$cb117e40$61347ac0$_at_de>

Hi Bernd, all...

Not to slow the enthusiasm,
but if you know the iconography of 19th popular astronomy books,
it is quite unlikely, that that engraving depicts a real fall, or even an
eyewitness impression, as we are used to know from e.g. the Sikhote-Alin,
Hraschina or Boguslavka paintings.

Take the by far most popular illustrated astronomy book in French of that
period,
the Astronomie populaire by Camille Flammarion, the Carl Sagan of the 19.th
century.

Therein you'll find e.g. an engraving, (btw. of a much higher artistic
value, than that one)
of a known fall in India.
Very pittoresque, with frightened Indians with huge turbans jumping away
from the incoming fireball, with romantic Taj-Mahal-like temples in the
background of the scenery.

So, such engravings are often free captions of the artists, a "translation"
of reports into images.

Well, seen the time,
maybe the event inspiring Poyet could have been Alfianello,
the stone-fall, which caused the broadest stir in the newspapers at those
times.

Only a guess.
Best,
Martin

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Bernd V.
Pauli
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013 22:26
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: [meteorite-list] T-shirt (and French Fall)

Hello List,

I wrote:

"St. Caprais-de-Quinsac...Gironde (France) Fell 1883, Jan 28, 14:45 hrs"

Sounds good, looks good, ... but:

Have a close look at the date of the fall: Jan 28 !!!

Now, when you compare this with Mike B.'s remarks:

"One will note that there are many farmers about and the horse is saddled
with the hay carriage."

The only conclusion we can thus draw is that the scene depicts an
(imaginary?) event in late summer during the harvest season, probably
August.

Another possibility might be that Poyet so-to-speak "merged"
two incidents: the fall of the St. Caprais-de-Quinsac meteorite and the
harvest scene.

A case of ... artistic license?

Bernd


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Received on Wed 02 Jan 2013 07:53:45 PM PST