A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mineralogy (1912)
Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope), 1851-1917 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 308
, are of interest, and serve toemphasize the partially childlike condition of natural science inhis time, and the peculiar mixture of conceptions derived fromorganic with the facts of inorganic nature. This condition ofscience prevailed long after Pliny, and assumed a semi-metaphys-ical character… … VESUVIANITE Magnet Cove, Ark.Bement Collection, American Museum of Natural History DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALOGY 203 given a voice to stones, or we may say, answerinj:^ man, trulyspeaking back to him. What harsher than the rigidity of stone?Lo! she has given to it sense and hands. What more…
American Museum of Natural History. Bement Collection of Minerals · Mineralogy
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