 | William Phillips - Mineralogy - 1823 - 558 pages
...perhaps the shortest and most certain mode of arriving at the truth. In this the labours of tinAbbe Haiiy have shed over mineralogy a purely philosophical...study to the rank of a science : this he has done by shewing the consonance of the laws of crystallization with rigid calculation : he has proved that in... | |
 | Walter Fred Hunt - Mineralogy - 1918 - 450 pages
...in 1823 says: "The labors of the Abb6 Haiiy have shed over mineralogy a purely philosophical luster which indeed has been one of the chief causes of raising...that in crystallization there is a natural geometry." It was as tho he took as his motto the inspired words of Gulielmini, uttered nearly a century before... | |
 | New York State Museum - 1919 - 336 pages
...in 1823, says: " The labors of the Abbd Hauy have shed over mineralogy a purely philosophical luster which indeed has been one of the chief causes of raising...that in crystallization there is a natural geometry." " Crystallization is a curious and wonderful operation of Nature's geometry, and therefore worthy of... | |
 | Science - 1918 - 896 pages
...1823, says: " The labors of the Abbe1 Haiiy have shed over mineralogy a purely philosophical luster which indeed has been one of the chief causes of raising...that in crystallization there is a natural geometry." " Crystallization is a curious and wonderful operation of Nature's geometry, and therefore worthy of... | |
 | 1919 - 622 pages
...in 1823, says: " The labors of the Abb6 Hauy have shed over mineralogy a purely philosophical luster which indeed has been one of the chief causes of raising...that in crystallization there is a natural geometry." It was as though he took as his motto the inspired words of Gulielmini uttered nearly a century before... | |
| |
Haiiy have shed over mineralogy a purely philosophical luster which indeed has been one of the chief causes of raising the study to the rank of a science ; this he has done by showing the consonance of the laws of crystallization with rigid calculation:... 