De Natura Fossilium

De Natura Fossilium is a scientific text written by Georg Bauer also known as Georgius Agricola, first published in 1546. The book represents the first scientific attempt to categorize minerals, rocks and sediments since the publication of Pliny's Natural History. This text along with his other works including De Re Metallica compose the earliest comprehensive "scientific" approach to mineralogy, mining, and geological science.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Foreword, De natura fossilium

References

  • Agricola, Georgius (2004). De natura fossilium (Textbook of mineralogy). Translated from the first Latin edition of 1546 by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean A. Bandy. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486495910.
  • Zittel, Karl Alfred von (1901). History of geology and palæontology to the end of the nineteenth century. Translated by Maria M. Ogilvie Gordon. W. Scott. pp. 15–16.