Abstract
MINERALOGY, at first purely descriptive, has been raised to the dignity of an experimental science by the application of the principles of chemistry and physics. The writer of a mineralogical text-book is thus met at the outset with the difficulty of deciding what amount of knowledge of chemistry and physics to assume in his reader. With regard to the chemical side at least, the rule appears to be to assume that he knows very little, and yet, somewhat inconsistently, to make the exposition of the atomic theory and the fundamental principles of chemistry so brief as to be of little service to
Allgemeine Chemische Mineralogie.
Von Dr. C. Doelter O. Professor der Mineralogie K. K. Universität Graz. With 14 Figures in the Text. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1890.)
Enjoying our latest content?
Log in or create an account to continue
- Access the most recent journalism from Nature's award-winning team
- Explore the latest features & opinion covering groundbreaking research
or
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
P., G. Allgemeine Chemische Mineralogie. Nature 44, 516–517 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044516a0
Issue date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/044516a0
