CRYSTALS (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from CrystalsAs early as 1773, Bergman, a celebrated Swedish chemist, shewed in his writings that he recognized the importance of cleavage, and by it he tried to explain the relationship of the various forms assumed by the same mineral, which had so interested and puzzled Delisle, who, however, assigned little or no importance to cleavage, speaking, as he does in the preface to his treatise mentioned above, most contempt122 the Ottawa naturalist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,