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

The author collects contemporary eyewitness reports of stones and extraordinary hailstones falling from burning, smoking clouds, recording shapes, weights, surface vitrification, metallic inclusions, and thermal effects on bystanders and vegetation. He analyzes specimens' mineralogical features, considers processes that might produce such consolidated fragments in the atmosphere, and offers hypotheses linking observations to prior ideas about stone formation. The essay also compiles ancient and historical accounts of similar events to compare precedents and encourage further investigation.