Abraham Gottlob Werner
1749-1817
German Naturalist
Abraham Gottlob Werner wrote the first modern textbook of descriptive mineralogy, Vonden äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (1774; "O...
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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 geological problems, had a p...
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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 b...
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