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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Crystals
Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton
280 pages~5 hr 35 min read21 chapters$4.99
Why does a crystal always meet itself at the same precise angle, no matter its size or shape? Tutton unfolds the science of symmetry, habit, and structure, honoring the Abbe Hauy's prescient work and mapping the seven great systems. Elegant geometry made visible in stone. Look into the ordered heart of the mineral world.
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21 chapters
- 1CRYSTALS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION.
- 5CHAPTER II THE MASKING OF SIMILARITY OF SYMMETRY AND CONSTANCY OF ANGLE BY DIFFERENCE OF HABIT, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON EARLY STUDIES OF CRYSTALS.
- 6CHAPTER III THE PRESCIENT WORK OF THE ABBÉ HAÜY.
- 7CHAPTER IV THE SEVEN STYLES OF CRYSTAL ARCHITECTURE.
- 8CHAPTER V HOW CRYSTALS ARE DESCRIBED. THE SIMPLE LAW LIMITING THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE FORMS.
- 9CHAPTER VI THE DISTRIBUTION OF CRYSTAL FACES IN ZONES, AND THE MODE OF CONSTRUCTING A PLAN OF THE FACES.
- 10CHAPTER VII THE WORK OF EILHARDT MITSCHERLICH AND HIS DISCOVERY OF ISOMORPHISM.
- 11CHAPTER VIII MORPHOTROPY AS DISTINCT FROM ISOMORPHISM.
- 12CHAPTER IX THE CRYSTAL SPACE-LATTICE AND ITS MOLECULAR UNIT CELL. THE 230 POINT-SYSTEMS OF HOMOGENEOUS CRYSTAL STRUCTURE.
- 13CHAPTER X LAW OF VARIATION OF ANGLES IN ISOMORPHOUS SERIES. RELATIVE DIMENSIONS OF UNIT CELLS. FIXITY OF ATOMS IN CRYSTAL.
- 14CHAPTER XI THE EXPLANATION OF POLYMORPHISM, AND THE RELATION BETWEEN ENANTIOMORPHISM AND OPTICAL ACTIVITY.
- 15CHAPTER XII EFFECT OF THE SYMMETRY OF CRYSTALS ON THE PASSAGE OF LIGHT THROUGH THEM. QUARTZ, CALCITE, AND GYPSUM AS EXAMPLES.
- 16CHAPTER XIII EXPERIMENTS IN CONVERGENT POLARISED LIGHT WITH QUARTZ, AS AN EXAMPLE OF MIRROR-IMAGE SYMMETRY AND ITS ACCOMPANYING OPTICAL ACTIVITY.
- 17CHAPTER XIV EXPERIMENTS WITH QUARTZ AND GYPSUM IN PARALLEL POLARISED LIGHT. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THE EXPERIMENTS WITH QUARTZ.
- 18CHAPTER XV HOW A CRYSTAL GROWS FROM A SOLUTION.
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