TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jameson,Robert
TI  - System of Mineralogy
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Earth Science
SN  - 9780511997174 (ebook)
PY  - 1816///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511997174
ER  -