Abraham Gottlob Werner
(born Sept. 25, 1750, Wehrau, Saxony—died June 30, 1817, Freiberg) German geologist. In opposition to the Plutonists, or Vulcanists, who argued that granite and many other rocks were of igneous origin, he founded the Neptunist school, which proclaimed that all rocks resulted from precipitation from oceans that had, he theorized, once completely covered the Earth. He rejected uniformitarianism. His brilliant lecturing and personal charm won him many students, who, though many eventually discarded his theories, would not renounce them while Werner lived.For more information on Werner, Abraham Gottlob, visit Britannica.com.
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/25/1996; 445 words
; ...engraver and bookseller, 1593; Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, theologian, 1627; Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer, 1683; Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist, 1750; George Frederic Pinto, violinist and composer, 1786; Mrs Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet, 1793...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). (The History of Mineralogy: 1530-1799)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Werner is considered by many to be the father of modern mineralogy, and one of the most important mineral collectors of his age. He was born in Prussian Silesia near the Saxon border, to a wealthy family that had held important positions in the mining and smelting industries of the Saxon Erzgebirge
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THE SCLEROMETER and the DETERMINATION OF THE HARDNESS OF MINERALS
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...intervals between points on the scales. The first such scale was developed by the Freiberg mineralogist and geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). In his work on the "external characteristics of minerals" (1774), Werner used the criteria discernible...
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The sclerometer and the determination of the hardness of minerals.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...intervals between points on the scales. The first such scale was developed by the Freiberg mineralogist and geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). In his work on the external characteristics of minerals (1774), Werner used the criteria discernible...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Abraham Gottlob Werner The German naturalist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) wrote the first modern textbook of descriptive...major proponent of the Neptunian theory of the earth. Abraham Werner was born on Sept. 25, 1749, at Wehrau in Upper Lusatia...
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Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749–1817) Abraham Gottlob Werner is best remembered today as the leader of what became...were proposed for the Earth as a whole. According to Werner, the older rocks, including granite and basalt, had been...
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Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1750–1817) Professor of mineral science at the Mining Academy, Freiberg, who developed a system of mineral classification...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1750-1817, German geologist. In 1775 he became inspector and teacher in the mining academy at Freiberg, which through his efforts became one of the leading schools in Germany. In the last part of the 18th cent. he was the most notable figure in the investigation of rocks and minerals; he called
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geognosy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
geognosy See WERNER , ABRAHAM GOTTLOB .
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