Before revision: In the last years of the sixteenth century Michael Mercati tried to prove that the "thunder-stones" were weapons or implements of early races of men; but for some reason his book was not published until the beginnin of the XVIII century, when other thinkers had begun to take up the same idea.The meaning of ceraunia : archaeology, natural history and the interpretation of prehistoric stone artefacts in the eighteenth century In 1723 Antoine de Jussieu addressed the French Academy on "The Origin and Uses of Thunder-stones".
After revision: In the last years of the sixteenth century Michael Mercati tried to prove that the "thunder-stones" were weapons or implements of early races of men; but for some reason his book was not published until the beginning of the XVIII century, when other thinkers had begun to take up the same idea.The meaning of ceraunia : archaeology, natural history and the interpretation of prehistoric stone artefacts in the eighteenth century In 1723 Antoine de Jussieu addressed the French Academy on "The Origin and Uses of Thunder-stones".