De Natura Fossilium is the first scientific attempt to categorize minerals, rocks and sediments since the publication of Pliny's Natural History. The text is written by George Bauer also known as Georgius Agricola. Published in 1546, this text along with his other works including De Re Metallica compose the earliest comprehensive "scientific" approach to mineralogy, mining, and geological science.^[1]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ v-vii, Brandy and Brandy

[edit] References

Agricola, Georgious. De Natura Fossilium. Translated by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean A. Bandy. New York: Mineralogical Society of America, 1955.

[edit] External links

• Online copy of the Bandy and Bandy translation

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