37 results filtered with: Mineralogy - Early works to 1800
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Torberni Bergman, Chemiae Prof. upsal. Et Equitis Aurati Regii Ordinis De wasa, Sciagraphia Regni Mineralis, secundum principia proxima digesti.
Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Outlines of mineralogy, translated from the original, of Sir Torbern Bergman, Knight of the Order of Wasa, Professor of Chemistry at Upsal, &c. By William Withering, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, at Edinburgh.
Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Spatogenesia. The origin and nature of spar; its qualities and uses: with a description and history of eighty-nine species; arranged, 1. In an Artificial and 2. In a Natural Method. A specimen of a general distribution of fossils. By J. Hill, M. D. member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Observations made by J. H. Mostly in the year 1706.
Hutchinson, John, 1674-1737.Date: 1710?]- Books
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An easy method of assaying and classing mineral substances. containing Plain and Easy Instructions for any person to examine The Products of his own Land, or such as are obvious in Excursions or Travels in foreign Countries, without having a complete Chemical Apparatus. To which is added, a series of experiments on the Fluor Spatosus, or Sparry Fluor. Abstracted from the Memoirs of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Year 1771. By John Reinhold Forster, F. R. S.
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Miscellaneous observations connected with the physical sciences / by Emanuel Swedenbourg. Translated from the Latin by Charles Edward Strutt.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.Date: 1847- Books
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Traites sur l'histoire naturelle et la minéralogie. Par M. de Launay, Membre de L'Academie Imperiale & Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles.
Launay, Louis de, 1740?-1805?.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Schediasma fosilium, in usus academicos Edinburgi, 1781.
Walker, John, 1731-1803.Date: 1781]- Books
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Classes fossilium: sive, characteres naturales et chymici classium et ordinum in systemate minerali; cum nominibus genericis adscriptis. In usus academicos.
Walker, John, 1731-1803.Date: 1787- Books
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Dissertatio chemica inauguralis, de aquis mineralibus, quam, Annuente Summo Numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Necnon Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Meade, Hibernus, Societ. Reg. Phys. Edin. Praes. Ann. Societ. Chirurg. Obstet. Praes. Nec non, Societat. American. Phys. Soc. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Meade, William, M.D.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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A plan of a course of lectures on mineralogy, to which is prefixed an essay on the different kinds of mineral collections, translated from the German of Professor Werner. By John Hailstone, Woodwardian Professor of Fossils in the University of Cambridge.
Hailstone, John, 1759-1847.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A discovery of subterranean treasure : (viz.) of all manner of mines and minerals, from the gold to the coal with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries, and also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small charge presently try the value of such oars [sic] as shall be found either by rule or by accident : whereunto is added a real experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any piece of gold that shall come to his hands be true or counterfeit, without defacing or altering the form thereof, and more certainly than any goldsmith or refiner could formerly discern : also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leaf, flower, stalk, root, fruit, seed, bark, or wood will give : with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours : very necessary for every one to know, whether he be traveller by land or sea, or in what country, dominion, or plantation soever he shall inhabit / by Mr. Gabriel Plattes.
Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640Date: 1679- Books
De lapidibus / [Theophrastus] ; edited, with introduction, translation, and commentary, by D.E. Eichholz.
Theophrastus.Date: 1965- Books
Traité des metaux et des mineraux : et des remedes qu'on en peut tirer ... / par M. Chambon.
Chambon, Joseph, 1647-1733.Date: 1750- Books
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Elements of fossilogy*: or, an arrangement of fossils, into classes, orders, genera, and species; with Their characters. By George Edwards, Esq;
Edwards, George, 1694-1773.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural history. Containing a theory of the earth, a general history of man, of the brute creation, and of vegetables, minerals, &c. &c. &c. From the French. With notes by the translator. In ten volumes. ...
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.Date: 1797- Books
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Theophrastou tou Eresiou peri ton lithon biblion. Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and critical and philosophical notes, including the modern history of the gems, &c. described by that author, and of many other of the native fossils. By John Hill. To which are added, two letters: one to Dr. James Parsons, F. R. S. on the colours of the sapphire and turquoise. And the other, to Martin Folkes, Esq; Doctor of Laws, and President of the Royal Society; upon the effects of different menstruums on copper. Both tending to illustrate the doctrine of the gems being coloured by metalline particles.
Theophrastus.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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A new system of mineralogy, in the form of catalogue, after the manner of Baron Born's systematic catalogue of the collection of fossils of Mlle Éléonore de Raab. By William Babington, M. D. Assistant Physician, And Lecturer In Chemistry, At Guy's Hospital.
Babington, William, 1756-1833.Date: 1799- Books
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Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals : containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos.
Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690Date: 1661- Books
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A synopsis of mineralogy, Rendered easy and familiar; in a variety of the most useful, as well as most entertaining processes or operations on mineral bodies; By James Miller, Esq. professor of chemistry, &c.
Miller, James, Professor of Chemistry.Date: [1794?]- Books
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Pyritologia: or, a history of the pyrites, the principal body in the mineral kingdom. In which are considered its Names, Species, Beds, and Origin; its Iron, Copper, unmetallic Earth, Sulphur, Arsenic, Silver, Gold, original Particles, Vitriol, and Use in smelting. The whole compiled from a Collection of Samples; from visiting Mines; from an intercourse and Correspondence with Naturalists and Miners; but chiefly from a Course of Chymical Enquiries. With a Preface, containing an Account of the Advantages arising from Mine-Works in general, and particular from those of Saxony. Translated from the German of J. F. Henckel, Late chief Director of the Mines at Friberg in Saxony.
Henckel, J. F. (Johann Friedrich), 1678 or 1679-1744.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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Elements of mineralogy. By Richard Kirwan, Esq; F.R.S.
Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An essay towards a system of mineralogy: by Axel Fredric Cronstedt. Translated from the original Swedish, with notes, by Gustav von Engestrom. To which is added, A treatise on the pocket-laboratory, Containing An Easy Method, used by the Author, for Trying Mineral Bodies, written by the translator. The whole revised and corrected, with som additional notes, by Emanuel Mendes da Costa.
Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik, 1722-1765.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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An introduction to mineralogy: or, an accurate classification of fossils and minerals, viz. Earths, Stones, Salts, Inflammables and Metallic Substances. To which are added I. A Discourse on the Generation of Mineral Bodies. II. Dr. Lehman's Tables on the Affinities of Salts. III. Tables on the specific Gravities of mineral Bodies. IV. A View of their respective Powers as Conductors of Electricity. By John Reinhold Forster, F. A. S. And Tutor in the Modern Languages and Natural History in the Warrington Academy.
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A system of mineralogy, formed chiefly on the plan of Cronstedt. Vol. I. By J. G. Schmeisser, F. R. S. &c.
Schmeisser, Johann Gottfried, 1767-1837.Date: 1795