System of MineralogyRobert Jameson (1774-1854) was a renowned geologist who held the chair of natural history at Edinburgh from 1804 until his death. A pupil of Gottlob Werner at Freiberg, he was in turn one of Charles Darwin's teachers. Originally a follower of Werner's influential theory of Neptunism to explain the formation of the earth's crust, and an opponent of Hutton and Playfair, he was later won over by the idea that the earth was formed by natural processes over geological time. He was a controversial writer, accused of bias towards those who shared his Wernerian sympathies such as Cuvier, while attacking Playfair, Hutton and Lyell. He built up an enormous collection of geological specimens, which provided the evidence for his System of Mineralogy, first published in 1808 and here reprinted from the second edition of 1816. Volume 2 continues 'earthy minerals' and covers saline and inflammable minerals, including coals. |
Contents
Sahlite | 1 |
SALINE MINERALS | 303 |
Salts of Copper | 343 |
INFLAMMABLE MINERALS | 349 |
Bituminous Family | 356 |
Bituminous Wood | 368 |
Humite | 420 |
ADDITIONAL BRITISH LOCALITIES OF MINERALS | 428 |
Cronstedt Mineralogia Stockh 1758 | 438 |
Brongniarts Mineral System in 1807 | 453 |
339 | 459 |
Hauys System in 1813 | 467 |
Werners Mineral System in 1815 | 475 |
15 Arrangement of Simple Minerals in this Work 1816 | 488 |
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Common terms and phrases
1r th Actynolite acuminated Aikin Alumina Anhydrite Apatite augite Baryt basalt beds Beit Bert bevelled bituminous blowpipe brittle Broch Brong Brown Coal calcareous-spar carbonatée Carbonic Acid Chaux Chemical Characters chrysolite cleavage colour Compact conchoidal Constituent cross fracture crystallised crystals distinct concretions Earthy easily frangible Estner External Characters Family fibrous floetz foliated four-sided prism fragments are indeterminate Genus Geognostic and Geographic Geognostic Situation Geographic Situations glimmering glistening granular Graphite grey gypsum Haus Hauy heavy-spar Hornblende imbedded indeterminate angular ironstone Karsten Kirw Klaproth lamellar lateral edges lateral planes Lenz Leonhard Lepidolite limestone Magnesia Manganese marble Mineral Pitch Mohs Muriate Observations occurs massive Oken olivine opaque Oxide of Iron pearly principal fracture quartz Reuss rocks Salts semi-hard shining Silica slaty soft sometimes Spec species Specific gravity splendent splintery streak Strontian Subspecies Suck Sulphate Sulphur Tabel translucent Tremolite truncated varieties veins vitreous Water Werner yellowish