Kathiawar
Kathiawar , peninsula, c.25,000 sq mi (64,750 sq km), W India, between the Gulf of Kachchh and the Gulf of Khambat. Almost all of Kathiawar is included in Gujarat state; a small area, Diu, is part of the union territory of Daman and Diu . The region, mostly level, produces much cotton and has stone quarries and cement and chemical industries. Agriculture is also important, the major crops being cotton, wheat, and millet. Bhavnagar is the chief port. Under British rule the region contained numerous princely states.
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Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). (The History of Mineralogy: 1530-1799)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Werner is considered by many to be the father of...Erzgebirge since at least the early 1500's. Werner's father was the official Inspector of...minerals. By the age of nine the young Werner was already building his own mineral collection...
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The sclerometer and the determination of the hardness of minerals.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...developed by the Freiberg mineralogist and geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). In his work on the "external characteristics of minerals" (1774), Werner used the criteria discernible by the senses, such...
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THE SCLEROMETER and the DETERMINATION OF THE HARDNESS OF MINERALS
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...developed by the Freiberg mineralogist and geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). In his work on the "external characteristics of minerals" (1774), Werner used the criteria discernible by the senses, such...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/30/1995; 552 words
; ...Montezuma II, Aztec emperor, killed 1520; William Oughtred, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule, 1660; Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist, 1817; Charles Jules Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, hanged 1882; Dr Lee De Forest...
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The Schloss Freudenstein terra mineralia collection: fabulous new mineral exhibit opens in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany.
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Massanek is curator of the new terra mineralia Museum as well as the Freiberg mineralogical collection in the Abraham Gottlob Werner Building, only a few blocks from the Castle Freudenstein. Dr. Jutta Petzold-Herrmann is responsible for the...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Abraham Gottlob Werner The German naturalist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) wrote the first modern textbook of descriptive mineralogy and was the major proponent of the Neptunian theory of the earth. Abraham Werner was born on Sept. 25...
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Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749–1817) Abraham Gottlob Werner is best remembered today as the leader of what became known as the neptunist school of geological thought. In his time he was famous as a teacher of geology at the Freiberg...
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Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749-1817)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749-1817) German geologist One of the founders of stratigraphy , Abraham Werner was one of the first to apply the modern scientific method to many...
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Breithaupt, Johann Friedrich August
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...he came under the influence of Abraham Gottlob Werner, who had been a dominant figure...last to hold the latter office. Werner died in 1817 and was succeeded...only authorized publication of Werner ’ s mineral system...
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Freiesleben, Johann Karl
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...and there he found a patron in Abraham Gottlob Werner, professor of geology and mineralogy...Freiberg in order to study under Werner, Freiesleben became friendly...gifted and most learned students of Werner, the leading geologist of the...
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