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  • Thumbnail for Abraham Gottlob Werner
    Abraham Gottlob Werner (German: [ˈaːbʁaham ˈɡɔtloːp ˈvɛʁnɐ]; 25 September 1749 – 30 June 1817) was a German geologist who set out an early theory about...
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    Neptunism is a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817) in the late 18th century, who proposed that rocks formed...
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    priores de Diluvio & Paradiso (in Latin). London: G. Kettiby. Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1787). Kurze Klassifikation und Beschreibung der verschiedenen...
    172 KB (9,499 words) - 03:27, 5 August 2024
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    Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a book of named colour samples compiled by Abraham Gottlob Werner, and subsequently amended by Patrick Syme. The book...
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  • Werner I (Bishop of Strasbourg) (c. 980 – 1028) Werner I, Count of Habsburg (c. 1025 – 1096) Werner II, Count of Habsburg (d. 1167) Abraham Gottlob Werner...
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    Jean Sturm (1507 – 1589), educator and Protestant reformer 33. Werner, Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 – 1817), geologist 34. Winckelmann, Johann Joachim Winckelmann...
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  • well as other rocks, the first since Pliny's Natural History. Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1774). Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (in German)...
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    fossilium externis, Leipzig 1757; later translated into German by Abraham Gottlob Werner as Abhandlung über die äußeren Kennzeichen der Fossilien (1774)...
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    mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany. Johannes Baier (2021): Abraham Gottlob Werner und der Scheibenberg (Erzgebirge). - Aufschluss 72(4), 177–185....
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  • and Mineralogy in Schools and Universities. The DMG awards prizes Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal in silver and gold Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Prize for young...
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    the Mohs hardness is 6+1⁄2. The name "vesuvianite" was given by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1795, because fine crystals of the mineral are found at Vesuvius;...
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    Ca10(PO4)6Cl2. The mineral was named apatite by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1786, although the specific mineral he had described was reclassified...
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    have a dull (dark green, brown or black) luster. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1792. Fassaite Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral...
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    Humboldt and was a promoter of stratigraphy and geognosy as taught by Abraham Gottlob Werner. The mineral Freieslebenite is named in his honour. Freiesleben...
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    viewed by transmitted light. Rutile was first described in 1803 by Abraham Gottlob Werner using specimens obtained in Horcajuelo de la Sierra, Madrid (Spain)...
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  • Ludwig Tieck Jiří Třanovský Daniel Gottlob Türk Hermann Ulrici Dimitri Uznadze Karl August Varnhagen von Ense Abraham Vater Daniel Vorländer Hugo Marie...
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  • Thumbnail for Werner Collection in the National Museum of Brazil
    is due to the main researcher of the German academy, scientist Abraham Gottlob Werner. The collection came to Brazil in the 19th century, brought by the...
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    of the decomposing body with the iron enclosure. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner, the "father of German geology", in 1817, the year of his death...
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    years was Abraham Gottlob Werner, who had recently developed an improved system for classifying minerals and rocks. An earlier student of Werner's, Nathanael...
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    translucent-to-opaque material is usually carved. The mineral was described by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1805. He named it after the Carniolan naturalist Sigmund Zois...
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