* Astronomy

Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Reichenbach, discoverer of the paraffin, was a keen German philosopher and natural scientist of the early 19th century. His passion for meteorites awoke with the fall of the Blansko meteorite in today's Czech Republic which occurred in 1833. Reichenbach, who at this time worked as a chemist in the smelteries of Baron Salm in Blasko, had his workers search for the meteorite several days before it was found. The event was the seed of what would become one of the largest private meteorite collections of his time.
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