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System of Mineralogy (Paperback)
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System of Mineralogy (Paperback)
Series: System of Mineralogy 3 Volume Set, Volume 1
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Robert 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 1 deals with what
Jameson terms 'earthy minerals', including diamonds, rubies and
feldspar.
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