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Steno, Nicolaus

Exactly 300 years ago (1669), Nicolaus Steno discovered the law of constant interfacial angles in quartz, and Erasmus Bartholinus discovered the double refraction of light in calcite about the same time, Robert Boyle (1661) defined the concept of chemical elements by qualitative mineral analyses. [Pg.23]

This law was proposed by the Dane Nils Steensen Nicolaus Steno, 1669) for crystals of quartz. Generalized by the Italian Domenico Guglielmini (1688) and by the Swiss Moritz Anton Cappeller (1723), the definitive form was proposed by the Frenchman Rome de lisle (1783) ... [Pg.7]

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