Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography: Containing the Elements of the Science of Minerals and Rocks, for the Use of the Practical Mineralogist and ... in Schools and Colleges (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Dana, James D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265298997 ISBN 13: 9780265298992

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Manual of Mineralogy and Petrography: Containing the Elements of the Science of Minerals and Rocks, for the Use of the Practical Mineralogist and Geologist and for Instruction in Schools and Colleges

The student is referred to the Text-book of Mineralogy, prepared mainly by Mr. E. S. Dana, for a detailed exposition of the subject of crystallography after Naumann's and Miller's systems, and also of optical mineralogy and other physical branches of the science; to the Manual of Determinative Mineralogy and Blowpipe Analysis by Professor george J. Brush, for a thorough work on the use of the blowpipe, and complete tables for the determination of minerals; and to the author's Descriptive Mineralogy and its Appendixes for a com prehensive treatise on minerals.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0265298997
• ISBN 13: 9780265298992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 554