CHENEVIX, RICHARD. - ATTACKING WERNER'S MINERALOGICAL SYSTEM.

Réflexions sur quelques Méthodes minéralogiques. (+) Suite des Réflexions... (+) Suite des Réflexions.. (3 Parts).

Paris, Chez Bernard, 1808. Contemp. hcalf., gilt spine. A few scratches to binding. In: "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.." Vol. 65. Entire volume offered. 336,(8) pp. a. 1 plate. (The plate in facsimile, not belonging to Chenevix). Chenevix's paper: pp. 5-43, pp. 113-60 a. pp. 225-276. Small stamps to verso of titlepage. Light browning to htitle. Otherwise clean and fine.

First apperance of an importent work in mineralogy in which Chenevix strongly advocates the specifications of Haüy, taking the physical condition of the surface as the guiding principle in mineralogical classification, disputing the system of Werner. Later the work appered in a separate form, and it was also published in English in 1811.

"In these years he published a significant paper, "Sur quelques méthodes minéralogiques" (1808), in which he disputed Abraham Gottlob Werner’s classification of minerals by their chemical composition. He himself adopted R. J. Haüy’s criterion of classification, the physical characteristics of minerals."(DSB)

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