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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    March 2011
    July 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511701924
    9781108002011
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701924
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.2kg, 148 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, Education, Education, History, Theory, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, Education, Education, History, Theory, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), a student of Adam Sedgwick, became Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge in 1822. He soon moved to a chair in Botany, and became a teacher and mentor to Charles Darwin. This book on mineralogy was first published in 1823. It was intended to save time in class by providing an easily accessible reference to the composition of various minerals according to the principles of atomic theory, which was then entering the scientific mainstream. In that paradigm, analysis and examination of any mineral's composition involved first ascertaining the mineral's elementary molecules, both 'essential' and 'accidental', and second, determining the proportions in which the essential ingredients combined to form the integrant molecule of the mineral. Henslow's book will interest historians of science tracing the development of atomic theory, and those working more broadly in the history of university education and the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century.

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