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De Natura Fossilium is a scientific text written by George Bauer also known as Georgius Agricola, first published in 1546. The book represents the first scientific attempt to categorize minerals, rocks and sediments since the publication of Pliny's Natural History. This text along with his other works including De Re Metallica compose the earliest comprehensive "scientific" approach to mineralogy, mining, and geological science.[1]
Notes
- ^ v-vii, Brandy and Brandy
References
- Agricola, Georgious. De Natura Fossilium. Translated by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean A. Bandy. New York: Mineralogical Society of America, 1955.
External links
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- History of mining
- Books by Georgius Agricola
- 1546 books
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