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(Latin: mino, a mine; Greek: logia, science)

The science which treats of minerals. It includes:

• crystallography, the science of crystals
• chemical mineralogy, which is concerned with the chemieal properties of minerals
• descriptive mineralogy which treats of the classification, description, and distribution of minerals
• determinative mineralogy which deals with the various methods, e.g., chemical or crystallographic, of distinguishing species
• economic mineralogy, the subject matter of which is the use of minerals as in jewelry

Among the notable contributors to the science are the following:

CATHOLICS

• Agricola, Georg Bauer
• Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk von
• Haüy, Rene Juste
• Mallard, Ernest François
• Schafhaütl, Karl Frederich von

OTHER CHRISTIAN MINERALOGISTS

• Brewster, David
• Dechen, Ernst Heinrich Karl van
• Hausmann, Johann Friedrich Ludwig
• Rath, Gerhard von