Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Haüy , René Just (1801), Traité de minéralogie. (Conseil des mines)., Retrieved on 2012-06-01Source Material [books.google.com]
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01 JUN 2012
Dissecting Crystals
A casual glance at crystals may lead to the idea that they were pure sports of nature, but this is simply an elegant way of declaring one's ignorance. With a thoughtful examination of them, we discover laws of arrangement. With the help of these, calculation portrays and links up the observed results. How variable and at the same time how precise and regular are these laws! How simple they are ordinarily, without losing anything of their significance! The theory which has served to develop th...Hauy describes learning the secrets of their structure.