ルネサンス期から17世紀末までの鉱物科学の成立過程

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This thesis deals with the Greek-Roma and Middle Age's writings on natural history of mineral kingdom, the ancient metallurgy and the use of minerals as medicines, giving a historical outline of the formative period through which the early sciences and techology on minerals were developed. The ides of science and technology fostered by Georgius Aglicola, a great naturalist and architect in the Runaissance age, is mentioned in this paper. He was a person who started his scientific research at dawn of the modern science and technology andd established the basis of both. In the seventeeth century, modern scientific research had already been afoot, and the science on the mineral kingdom, especially crystallomorphology and crystal physics began to be studied. The scientific description of the genesis and formation of minerals commenced. So this century was the preparatory stage of the efflorescence to the mineralogy of the eighteenth century.