Volume 1

System of mineralogy. Comprehending oryctognosie, geognosie, mineralogical chemistry, mineralogical geography, and oeconomical mineralogy / [Robert Jameson].

  • Robert Jameson
Date:
1804-08
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Credit: System of mineralogy. Comprehending oryctognosie, geognosie, mineralogical chemistry, mineralogical geography, and oeconomical mineralogy / [Robert Jameson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '' EXPLANATION I > 3nJ <•’ : ♦ V/ ni ' ^ 1 ^ Cj '* 4 '' ‘fc 1 ~ *■51 ^ *j A • ■ OF THE Jrj*jr-:::nl Dir, PLATES, i am indebted to Count dc Bournonr apd. Abbe Hauy, two of the moil able and diftinguiflied cryf- tallographers of the preftnt age, for the greater num- ber of the figures that accompany this wprk. I in. tended to havp completed the cryftal fuites of feveral of the fpecies .that are (till imperfe&9 but want of leifure and opportunity ha? prevented laig, z , . ,,,r , ..r, fjL-r • . »* . . diamond. 1 : ] • ill H : . v • , ' ' ] 1 1 . / , \ ' i’ I I • J • I * T * Fig. i • Qfiaedroi) Fig. 2. Octaedron, in which each plane is divided into fix, fo that the figure has 48 triangular faces*; ■ # We hope Count de Boumon will Toon 'gratify the roincralo- gical public with an account of the highly interesting f^ite of diamonds, which are in the colle&ion of the Hon. Mr. Greville. Zircon.