Prehistory of clay mineralogy - from ancient times to Agricola

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prehistory of clay mineralogy - from ancient times to Agricola

Original language description

The prehistory of clay mineralogy is highlighted form the beginnings in ancient Greece to the mineralogical works ofAgricola, in particular his famous handbook of mineralogy, entitle De natura fossilium (1546). Starting with a few scattered hints in theworks of Archaic and Classic Greek authors, including Aristotle, the first tereatment of clays as a part of mineralogy is by Theophrastus. This basic tradition was further supplemented by Roman agricultural writes (Cato, Columella), Hellenistic authors (the geographer Strabo and the physicians SDioscorides and Galen) the Roman engineer-architect Vitruvius, and finally summarized in Pliny´s encyclopedia Naturalis historia, which has become the main soursce for later authors, including Agricola. It is shown to what extent Agricola´ s work is just a great summary of this traditional knowledge and to what extent Agricola´s work must be considered as original. Ing particular, Agricola´s attempt to a rational, combinatorical classification of

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

JH - Ceramics, fire-proof materials and glass

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Geodynamica et Geomaterialia

ISSN

1214-9705

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000266019400008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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