Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom, Volume 1

Friedrich Mohs

A. Constable and Company, 1825 - Mineralogy - 50 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION 1 Nature: 1
• Natural History: 2
• NaturalHistorical Properties: 3
• Natural Productions: 4
• Design of Natural History 6 Individuals 7 Organic and Inorganic Natural Productions: 5
• Animals and Plants 9 Minerals: 6
• Natural Kingdoms 11 Division of Natural History: 7
• Principal Heads of Natural History: 8
• Terminology: 13
• Theory of the System: 14
• Nomenclature: 15
• Characteristic: 16
• Physiography: 17
• Idea of Natural History: 18
• PART I: 19
• Simple Mineral 2222: 22
• Compound Mineral 24 Mixed Mineral: 23
• 2: 24
• SECTION I: 27
• Object of Crystallography: 28
• Edges: 29
• Homologous or Equal Edges: 30
• Simple and Compound Forms: 31
• Tangent Planes: 32
• 7: 33
• Axes: 35
• Principal and subordinate Axes: 36
• Upright Position: 37
• Regularity: 38
• Determination of the Degrees of Regularity: 39
• Classification of Simple Forms: 40
• OF SIMPLE FORMS IN PARTICULAR Consideration of Simple Forms and some of their Geometrical Relations: 41
• 13: 42
• 14: 43
• Isosceles Foursided Pyramids: 44
• Scalene Foursided Pyramids: 45
• Ísosceles Sixsided Pyramids: 46
• Scalene Sixsided Pyramids: 47
• Scalene Eightsided Pyramids: 48
• 15: 51
• TERMINOLOGY: 52
• The Tetrahedron: 57
• The Hexahedron: 58
• General Consideration of Minerals Their distinction into Simple Compound and Mixed Division of their NaturalHistorical Properties: 59
• Trigonaldodecahedrons 60 Dodecahedrons in general: 60
• Power of Crystallisation and its Products 19: 61
• Tetragonaldodecahedrons: 62
• 48: 63
• Minerals decomposed and imperfectly formed: 64
• Pentagonaldodecahedrons: 65
• Hexahedral Pentagonaldodecahedrons: 66
• Tetrahedral Pentagonaldodecahedrons: 67
• Icositetrahedrons in general: 68
• Trigonalicositetrahedrons: 69
• Tetrahedral Trigonalicositetrahedrons: 70
• Hexahedral Trigonalicositetrahedrons: 71
• Octahedral Trigonalicositetrahedrons: 72
• Tetragonalicositetrahedrons: 73
• Digrammic Tetragonalicositetrahedrons: 74
• Trigrammic Tetragonalicositetrahedrons: 75
• Pentagonalicositetrahedrons: 76
• Tetracontaoctahedrons: 77
• The Ratio of the Diagonals of the Bases is: 81
• Subordinate Series: 90
• Derivations from the Isosceles Foursided Pyramid: 97
• The bases of the Scalene Foursided Pyramids: 104
• Series of Scalene Eightsided Pyramids: 105
• Subordinate Series: 107
• Derivations from the Rhombohedron 103 Derivation of Homogeneous Forms: 108
• Ratio of the Derived Rhombohedrons: 109
• Series of Rhombohedrons: 111
• Limits of the Series of Rhombohedrons: 112
• Derivation of Scalene Sixsided Pyramids: 113
• Pyramids depend on m: 116
• Series of Scalene Sixsided Pyramids: 117
• Limits of the Series of Scalene Sixsided Pyramids: 118
• Subordinate Series: 121
• Derivation of Isosceles Sixsided Pyramids: 124
• Derivations from the Hexahedron 119 Different Positions of a moveable Plane: 125
• Production of the Forms of several Axes: 128
• 59: 129
• The Octahedral Trigonalicositetrahedron: 130
• The Hexahedron: 131
• The Hexahedral Trigonaliçositetrahedron: 132
• The Tetracontaoctahedron Designation of the Tessular Forms: 133
• Resolution of Forms belonging to the first degree of regularity: 135
• The Tetrahedron: 138
• The Digrammic Tetragonaldodecahedron: 139
• 61: 140
• The Tetrahedral Pentagonaldodecahedrons: 142
• 98: 145
• Series of Crystallisation: 146
• The System of Crystallisation determined from a single Form: 147
• OF COMBINATIONS Of Combinations in general 138 Definition: 148
• First Law of Combination: 150
• Second Law of Combination: 151
• Symmetry of Combinations: 152
• Edges of Combination: 153
• Magnitude of the Edges of Combination: 158
• Of the Combinations of the different Systems of Crystallisation: 160
• Rhombohedral Combinations: 173
• Hemirhombohedral and Hemidirhombohedral Combinations: 174
• Developement of Rhombohedral and Dirhombo hedral Combinations: 179
• Pyramidal Combinations: 183
• 63: 191
• Developement of Pyramidal Combinations: 193
• Prismatic Combinations: 195
• Hemiprismatic Combinations: 199
• Observations: 200
• Tetartoprismatic Combinations: 201
• Developement of Prismatic Combinations: 203
• Derivation 80 First Process of Derivation: 205
• Semitessular Combinations: 207
• Deviations from Regularity depending upon: 216
• Form of Cleavage: 226
• Fracture: 232
• Diverse qualities of the Faces of Crystallisation: 238
• Regular and Irregular Composition: 242
• Irregular Composition Groupe and Geode: 252
• Accidental Imitative Shapes: 258
• Particles of Composition: 265
• Structure of Compound Minerals: 272
• Kind and Intensity of Lustre: 278
• Metallic Colours: 283
• Nonmetallic colours: 284
• Series of Colours: 292
• Several other peculiarities in the occurrence of Colours: 293
• The Streak: 296
• Degrees of Transparency: 297
• CHAPTER II: 298
• State of Aggregation: 299
• Hardness: 300
• Specific Gravity: 307
• Magnetism: 310
• Taste: 311
• Odour: 312
• PART II: 314
• Degrees of Difference: 315
• Mutual relations of the NaturalHistorical Pro perties in certain Individuals: 317
• Individuals brought under the idea of Identity: 318
• Connexion of several Series of Individuals: 320
• Species: 324
• Transitions: 325
• Homogeneity from the Transitions: 326
• Principle of Classification: 329
• Degrees of NaturalHistorical Resemblance: 330
• Genus: 331
• Mineral Kingdom: 334
• Order: 337
• Class: 338
• Mineral System: 340
• PART III: 346
• Object of the Systematic Denomination: 347
• Properties of the Systematic Denomination: 349
• Object of the Names: 351
• Name of the Order: 352
• Selection of the Names of the Orders: 354
• Signification of the Names of the Orders: 355
• Name of the Genus: 358
• Denomination of the Species: 360
• Representation of the Species through its Denomi nation: 361
• Systematic Nomenclature how to be judged of: 363
• Trivial Nomenclature: 365
• PART IV: 368
• Natural and Artificial Characters: 369
• Properties of the Characters: 370
• Absolute and conditioned Characteristic Marks: 373
• Arrangement of the Characters of the Species: 374
• No Characteristic before the System: 379
• Base of a perfect Characteristic: 381
• Use of the Characteristic: 383
• Determination of Individuals by means of the Characteristic Example: 384
• Immediate and mediate Determination Example: 388
• Base of the mediate Determination: 390
• Characters of the Classes Orders Genera and Species: 391
• 104: 407
• 64: 426
• 66: 428

Bibliographic information

• Title: Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom, Volume 1; Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom, Friedrich Mohs
• Author: Friedrich Mohs
• Publisher: A. Constable and Company, 1825
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 28, 2008
• Length: 50 pages