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    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...
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    Church of Scotland Notable work Schediasma Fossilium (1781) Delineato Fossilium (1782) Classes Fossilium: Sive Characteres Naturales et Chymici Classium...
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    ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum...
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    because of its use by Georgius Agricola in 1546, in his work De Natura Fossilium. Agricola applied the term "basalt" to the volcanic black rock beneath...
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    lava-derived rock dates to Georgius Agricola in 1546 in his work De Natura Fossilium. The word granite goes back at least to the 1640s and is derived either...
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    giving chemistry its modern name. For his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium published in 1546, he is generally referred to as the father of mineralogy...
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    Vannoccio Biringuccio. Bismuth was described by Agricola in De Natura Fossilium (c. 1546); it had been confused in early times with tin and lead because...
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    Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) published his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium in 1546 and is seen as the founder of geology as a scientific discipline...
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    in numerous manuscripts and books, such as in the treatise De Natura Fossilium, published in 1546 by the German mineralogist Georg Bauer, also known...
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    Georgius Agricola's classification of minerals in his book De Natura Fossilium, published in 1546, divided minerals into three types of substance: simple...
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