Details - Martin Thrane Brünnich Professor der Naturgeschichte ... Mineralogie

Martin Thrane Brünnich Professor der Naturgeschichte ... Mineralogie

Title

Martin Thrane Brünnich Professor der Naturgeschichte ... Mineralogie

Title Variants

Alternative: Mineralogie

Uniform: Mineralogie

By

Brünnich, M. Thr. (Morten Thrane), 1737-1827 , author

Wallerius, Johan Gottschalk, 1709-1785 , Systema mineralogicum
Georgi, Johann Gottlieb, 1738-1802 , translator
Logan, Johann Zacharias, , publisher

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

St. Petersburg und, Bey Johann Zacharias Logan, 1781

Notes

Translated by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, who signed the "Vorrede des Uebersetzers" on page [12] (1st group).

The descriptions of minerals make frequent reference to Wallerius's Systema mineralogicum (1772-1775).

Engraved vignette on title page, with the publisher's entwined initials, JZL.

Brünnich's mineral collection was acquired first by the Kongsberg Mining Academy (Bergseminarium); afterwards about a third of the specimens were purchased by the Kongelige Frederiks universitet (later known as the Universitetet i Oslo). --W.E. Wilson, The history of mineral collecting 1530-1799, page 163.

Head- and tail-pieces.

Signatures: pi⁸ 2*² A-X⁸ Y⁶.

Schuh, C.P. Mineralogy & crystallography, | 1092