Book Details
Orange Code:21105
Paperback:212 pages
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1. Berkhey’s Treatise on the Grounds of Holland (1771): geology before the term existed2. Was basalt derived from water or from fire? Dutch contributions to an 18th-century controversy3. Crystal models: milestone in the birth of crystallography and mineralogy as sciences4. The suitability of Haüy’s crystal models for identifying minerals5. Geology in the Belgian provinces during the reign of William6. Hermann Vogelsang (1837-1874), ‘Européen avant la lettre’.7. Staring and his geology lectures at Delft in 18638. W.C.H. Staring’s geological map of the Netherlands9. From speculation to science: the founding of groundwater hydrology in the Netherlands10. Maastricht Cretaceous finds and Dutch pioneers in vertebrate palaeontology11. An unpublished manuscript by C.E.A. Wichmann
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The papers collected in this volume, given at a Dutch history of science symposium, present a historical survey of Dutch contributions to earth science. Topics covered include: the pioneering stratigraphic studies of the eighteenth-century naturalist Francq van Berkhey; the 1863 geology lectures of Staring and his geological map of the Netherlands; the Maastricht Cretaceous finds in the emergence of Dutch vertebrate palaeontology; and the founding of ground water hydrology in the Netherlands.
The book also features two hallmark studies by Dutch scholars: a previously unpublished mineralogical treatise by Wiechmann, and a study of the suitability of Haüy's crystal models to identify minerals. These collected papers together form a signal contribution to the Dutch history of science.
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