The Language of Mineralogy

The Language of Mineralogy
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 0754663329
ISBN-13 : 9780754663324
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Book Synopsis The Language of Mineralogy by : Matthew Eddy

Download or read book The Language of Mineralogy written by Matthew Eddy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bĂȘte noir of studies that address eighteenth-century culture. This book shows how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history and, by explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, offers a new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain.


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