Sciences of the Earth: Studies in the History of Mineralogy and Geology

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Contents: Introduction A a Geologicala (TM) Text from Antiquity: Science in the silver age: Aetna, a classical theory of volcanic activity Early ideas about minerals and mineral analysis: Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the 16th and 17th centuries Mechanical mineralogy Some phlogistic mineralogical schemes, illustrative of the evolution of the concept of 'Earth' in the 17th and 18th centuries An examination of G.E. Stahl's Philosophical Principles of Universal Chemistry A note on the status of A.F. Cronstedt's simple earths and his analytical methods Mineralogy and the a revolutiona (TM) Some 18th-century methods for the chemical analysis of minerals Edward Daniel Clarke, 1769a 1822, and his role in the history of the blow-pipe The Earth, Method, and History: Robert Hooke's methodology of science as exemplified in his 'Discourse of Earthquakes' From Renaissance mineral studies to historical geology in the light of Michel Foucaulta (TM)s The Order of Things Historicism and the rise of historical geology By grid and group divided: Buckland and the English geological community in the early 19th century Sir Archibald Geikie ( 1835-1924): geologist, romantic aesthete, and historian of geology: the problem of Whig historiography of science Index.

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