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The importance of regional geology in the geological theories of Abraham Gottlob Werner: a contrary opinion

Pages 433-440 | Received 08 Sep 1979, Published online: 22 Aug 2006

  • This statement refers especially to the part of the Prodromus in which Steno deals with the geological history of Tuscany: The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's dissertation…; an English version with an introduction and explanatory notes by John Garrett Winter…with a foreword by William Hobbs… The Macmillan Company New York 1916 96 109 The work was first published in 1669.
  • Werner , A.G. 1786 . Kurze Klassifikation und Beschreibung der verschiedenen Gebirgsarten . Abhandlungen der Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , 2 : 272 – 297 . (p. 294)
  • Werner , A.G. 1786 . Kurze Klassifikation und Beschreibung der verschiedenen Gebirgsarten . Abhandlungen der Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , 2 : 272 – 297 . (p. 294)
  • Werner's Letters to Leske , Werner Mss . Among Werner's literary remains at the Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, German Democratic Republic, are eighty-four volumes of manuscripts which have only recently been fully catalogued. Photocopies of many of the manuscripts were made for me before the collection was catalogued, and I have not had the opportunity to collate my copies with the originals since. The notes which I took while I was in Freiberg before the Werner manuscripts were catalogued also have not been collated with the catalogue. The citation ‘Werner Mss’ refers to my copies or my notes; and titles, where given, correspond to those of the Bergakademie Freiberg library. Unfortunately, some of the manuscripts were untitled and undated as well as unnumbered. Therefore, in one or two instances (footnotes 14 and 18 below, specifically), I can give no clearer reference than ‘Werner Mss’.
  • Autobiographical notes , Werner Mss .
  • Entwurf der Lehre von Gebürgen , Werner Mss .
  • Kurze Klassifikation , Werner Mss .
  • von Charpentier , J.F.W. 1778 . Mineralogische Geographie der chursächsischen Lande , 408 – 409 . Leipzig : Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius .
  • de Saussure , Horace-Bénedict . 1796 . Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genève , Vol. 3 , 26 – 26 . Neuchatel : Chez Louis Fauche-Borel . i See also J. A. DeLuc, ‘Fourth letter to Dr. James Hutton, F.R.S. Edinburgh, on the theory of the Earth’, written at Windsor on 29 August 1791 and published in the Monthly review.
  • Steno . 1916 . The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's dissertation…; an English version with an introduction and explanatory notes by John Garrett Winter…with a foreword by William Hobbs… , 96 – 109 . New York : The Macmillan Company .
  • Taylor , Kenneth L. 1969 . “ Nicolas Desmarest and geology in the eighteenth century ” . In Towards a history of geology , Edited by: Schneer , C.J. 339 – 356 . Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press . in
  • See Ospovat A.M. Werner's “Kurze Klassification” Towards a history of geology M.I.T. Press Cambridge, Mass. 1969 242 256 in (pp. 234–244)
  • Werner , A.G. 1791 . Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gänge , 115 – 115 . Freiberg : Gerlachische Buchdruckerei .
  • Werner Mss.
  • Mears , B. Jr. 1970 . The changing earth , 11 – 11 . New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company .
  • Lehmann , Johann Gottlob . 1756 . Versuch einer Geschichte von Floetz-Gebürgen … , 96 – 96 . Berlin : Klütersche Buchandlung . see also pp. 95–132 and 135–153
  • von Zittel , K.A. 1899 . Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts , 33 – 33 . München : R. Oldebourg .
  • Werner Mss
  • Hooykaas , R. 1970 . Catastrophism in geology , 50 – 50 . Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Company .
  • Werner , A.G. 1971 . Short classification and description of the various rocks. Translated with an introduction and notes by Alexander M. Ospovat , 23 – 23 . New York : Hafner Publishing Company .

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