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Updated: May 25, 2025
The investigation was in all respects successful, and Biot's report transferred the stony or metallic lightning-bolt the aerolite or meteorite from the realm of tradition and conjecture to that of accepted science. But how explain this strange phenomenon? At once speculation was rife.
Meanwhile, he had to make both ends meet, and this he did by voluminous literary labors. He translated, for example, the four volumes of Biot's treatise on physics, and the six of Thénard's work on chemistry, and took care of their enlarged editions later.
Laplace also praised him for the clearness of his demonstrations, and invited Biot to accompany him home. Arrived there, Laplace took from a closet in his study a paper, yellow with age, and handed it to the young philosopher. To Biot's surprise, he found that it contained the solutions, all worked out, for which he had just gained so much applause.
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