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Mineralogy
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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(Latin: mino, a mine; Greek: logia, science)
The science which treats of minerals. It includes:
- crystallography, the science of crystals
- chemical mineralogy, which is concerned with the chemieal properties of minerals
- descriptive mineralogy which treats of the classification, description, and distribution of minerals
- determinative mineralogy which deals with the various methods, e.g., chemical or crystallographic, of distinguishing species
- economic mineralogy, the subject matter of which is the use of minerals as in jewelry
Among the notable contributors to the science are the following:
CATHOLICS
- Agricola, Georg Bauer
- Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von
- Haüy, Rene Juste
- Mallard, Ernest François
- Schafhaütl, Karl Frederich von
OTHER CHRISTIAN MINERALOGISTS
- Brewster, David
- Dechen, Ernst Heinrich Karl van
- Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig
- Rath, Gerhard von
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Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Mineralogy'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/mineralogy.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Mineralogy'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/mineralogy.html. 1910.
