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 332
us preceded Peter von Aries in the vagaries of imagin-ation which connected the metals and minerals with the sevenplanets and neighboring stars. These metals and minerals ejectedfrom these distant orbs had fallen on the earth, but the quartzes,beryls and citrine had been coagulated in the snow… … a ^ rt o C3 1- rt t4-i O o 3 2 cJ (A O s U > « rt 1—1 ri CJ N CiU J 1—1 ? -O < r3 o , ..^ ,_—I o o r\ (U CJ ~ t; u. pq <u M DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALOGY 219 alia semina), stones received their confif^uration, not less constantlyand regularly than the breeds of animals. Crystallography received a…
American Museum of Natural History. Bement Collection of Minerals · Mineralogy
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