A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mineralogy . ^ .Si P^ ^. DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALOGY 211 (hematite), and work successful charms, or endow with rare giftsof mind and person their wearers—all constitute a singular andgraphic portraiture of the traditional lore attached to stones andthe inherent tendency of the primitive mind to necromancy andsuperstition. Pliny concludes his remarkable essay with observations uponthe imitations of gems, coloration of stones, and their preferableforms
A popular guide to minerals : with chapters on the Bement Collection of minerals in the American Museum of Natural History, and the development of mineralogy . ^ .Si P^ ^. DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALOGY 211 (hematite), and work successful charms, or endow with rare giftsof mind and person their wearers—all constitute a singular andgraphic portraiture of the traditional lore attached to stones andthe inherent tendency of the primitive mind to necromancy andsuperstition. Pliny concludes his remarkable essay with observations uponthe imitations of gems, coloration of stones, and their preferableforms in nature, and some rules for their detection. The thirty-seventh book of Plinys Treasury of Knowledge,in the first century, forms a capital presentation of the state ofmineralogical science in that early day. Taken in connection withhis work on stones and ores, it shows us how eagerly the eyes ofmen had surveyed the earths surface and to what extent, guidedby their uses, their most obvious physical characters and theircolors, the barely emergent science of mineralogy had progressed. Many distinctions which we now retain had been made, a num-ber of names persiste
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