mineralogy

• While I received much benefit from the lectures on natural history at the university, I could not fall in with the views held there as to fixed forms—crystallography, mineralogy, and natural philosophy. —  Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
• There may be a sort of horseback theory of geology; but mineralogy, and the natural sciences generally, must be investigated on foot, hammer or goniometer in hand CHAPTER III. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
• Grafted on this mineralogy, and stimulated by the Swiss tour, was a new interest in physical geology, which his father so far approved as to give him Saussure's “Voyages dans les Alpes” for his birthday in 1834. —  The Life of John Ruskin
• He created a book Meng Xi Bi Tan (Translated "The Sketchbook of Dream Brook" or "Dream Pool Essays") (1086) in which he wrote about mineralogy, erosion, sedimentation and uplift, mathematics, astronomy, and meteorology. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• • In mineralogy, diamond is an extremely hard, highly refractive crystalline form of carbon that is usually colorless and can be used in abrasives, and other applications. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

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