CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHERS IN ENGLAND IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY

Abstract

With the end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth centuries exact investigations in mineralogy first began. The mineralogist was no longer content with approximate descriptions of minerals but strove rather to separate the essential fact from those that were accidental, to discover definite laws, and to learn the relation between the physical and chemical characteristics of a mineral. The use of mathematics gave a new aspect to crystallography, and the development of the optical relationships opened a magnificent field of wonderful phenomena which can be described as a garden gay with flowers of light, charming in themselves and interesting in their relations to the forces which guide and govern the regular structures of matter. (1.1).

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