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Diamonds from Canyon Diablo Meteorite 138 [Pg 1] DIAMONDS CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY From the earliest times the diamond
has fascinated mankind. It has
been a perennial puzzle—one of the “riddles
of the painful earth.” It is recorded
in Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)
that among the questions sent by order
of the Society to Sir Philiberto Vernatti,
Resident in Batavia, was one inquiring
“Whether Diamonds grow again after
three or four years in the same places where
they have been...