Hoover, 391 (missing the rare atlas volume); see Honeyman, vente IV, lot 1627.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, very rare complete with the atlas. Neville only describes the second edition (1822) and the book is missing to Sinkankas.<\/span><\/p>\n Ha\u00fcy (1743-1822) was a French mineralogist and crystallographer, considered to be the founder of modern crystallography. In 1770, he was ordained a priest and assigned to teach at the Coll\u00e8ge Cardinal Lemoine. After attending Daubenton’s lectures on mineralogy, he concentrated his studies and research on this subject. In 1794, he published his pioneering work \u2018Essai d’une th\u00e9orie sur la structure des cristaux<\/i>\u2019 and left teaching to devote himself exclusively to mineralogical studies.<\/p>\n Ha\u00fcy was arrested during the French Revolution, but thanks to the efforts of a former student, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, he was released the night before the execution of the other members of his group. In 1795, he was appointed Professor of Physics and Mineralogy at the \u00c9cole des Mines, before becoming Professor of Mineralogy at the Mus\u00e9um d’Histoire Naturelle, where he also continued his mineralogical research and considerably enlarged the mineral collection. In 1809, Ha\u00fcy also took up the chair of mineralogy at the Sorbonne, which he held until his death in 1822.<\/p>\n The Traite de Min\u00e9ralogie<\/i>, published in 1801, is considered his most influential work on mineralogy and crystallography. In it, Hau\u00ff established a system of mineralogical classification and crystal structure and led future researchers towards the laws of rational indices.<\/p>\n In this work, Hau\u00ff made the science of crystallography the basis for determining mineral species. His mathematical approach to the presentation of crystallographic facts provided for the first time an exact basis for mineralogy and the identification of mineral species.<\/p>\n The first volume contains his theory of crystals, and in the following three volumes he developed the classification of minerals and revised their nomenclature.<\/p>\n “This is the man who truly founded and developed the science of crystallography and, as Adam says, was simple, modest, a lover of learning, whose attention was directed to the study of mineralogy almost by chance. In handling a group of calcite crystals at the home of a friend, Ha\u00fcy accidentally dropped them. When he re-examined the broken prism, he noticed a new form, bounded by faces a smooth and shining as the original. ‘A new light broke up in the subject'” (Hoover).<\/p>\n Spines expertly restored. A very attractive set of this rare edition.<\/p>\n The first text volume has the extract of the copyright laws printed on the verso of the half-title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4 text volumes, 8vo (204 x 120 mm) 2 nn.ll., LVI, 494 pp., 1 nn.l. (errata) for volume I ; 2 nn.ll., 617 pp., 1 nn.l. (errata) for volume II ; 2 nn.ll., 588 pp., 1 nn.l. (errata) for volume III ; 2 nn.ll., 592 pp., 1 nn.l. (errata) for volume IV; and 1 atlas volume, 4to oblong (250 x 333 mm) title, 2 tables (inculding 1 folding), 10 pp., 1 nn.l. (\u00ab figures g\u00e9om\u00e9triques \u00bb), and 86 engraved plates by Maleuvre. Text in contempoprary tree-calf, flat spines gilt, yellow edges, atlas bound to style in calf-backed boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1450,572,1339,554,1335],"class_list":{"0":"post-78212","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-first-edition","8":"product_tag-gemmology","9":"product_tag-general-physics","10":"product_tag-mineralogy","11":"product_tag-physics","12":"pa_auteur-hauy-abbe-rene-just-2","13":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","15":"first","16":"instock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" abb\u00e9 Ren\u00e9-Just HA\u00dcY","chapeau":"The founder of crystallography\r\nComplete with the rare atlas","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, chez Louis de l'imprimerie de Delance, 1801","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n