James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817)

Posted by Petiver on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:13PM
from the publicdomainreview.org dept.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sowerby-mineralogy/

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Re:James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817) by billiam on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:20AM (#30601649)

Geology excels at one thing: showing how huge numbers of observations and descriptions can build a body of scientific knowledge and theory, even in the absence of fundamental tools.

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Re:James Sowerby's British Mineralogy (1802–1817) by lashloch on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:31AM (#30601834)

What beautiful illustrations. I will be looking through this all day.

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