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10 Cards in this Set
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Aristotle |
Wrote Meteorologica and included sections on minerals, metals, and fossils |
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Theophrastus |
A greek philosopher who was a student of aristotle. wrote a section on stones in his publication |
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Pliny |
Wrote several volumes of his encyclopedia naturalist on minerals |
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Georgius agricola |
Wrote De Re Metallica |
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Nicolas Steno |
From denmark; studied many quartz crystals and determined that the interfacial angles were the same no matter the size of the crystal |
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A. G. Werner |
a professor at the mining academy; standardized nomenclature and macroscopic definition of minerals |
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Carangeot |
Invented the contact goniometer |
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Romé de I'Isle |
The law of constancy of angles |
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Haüy |
theory of rational indices for crystal faces |
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Wollaston |
invented reflecting goniometer |
