Re: Johann Beringer
Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swau.edu)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:36:39 -0700At 03:25 PM 10/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Can anyone point me to a good source of information on Johann Beringer, the
>professor in 1726 who published a book about fossils that based upon
>fraudulent data planted by his students?
>
>What I am interested in in particular is his beliefs about extinction. Why
>did he believe that fossils were inorganic?
>glenn
I know there is a book about it that I read years ago at Loma Linda. So
any competent geological library should have it. It was heartbreaking
reading. I think he committed suicide, or died a broken man (it has been a
few years since I read it).
Art
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