A century of science in America : $b with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
History
A century of science in America : $b with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
American journal of science; Science -- United States -- History
The work of the German petrographers attracted attention and drew
students from all parts of the world to their laboratories, especially
to those of Zirkel and Rosenbusch. The great opportunities, facilities,
and freedom for work which the German universities had long offered to
foreign students of science naturally encouraged this. In France a
brilliant school of petrologists, under the able leadership of
Michel-Lévy and Fouqué, had arisen whose work has been continued by
Barrois, Lacroix and others, but the rigid structure of the French
universities at that period did not permit of the offering of great
inducements for the attendance of foreign students. The work of the
French petrographers will be noticed in another connection.
In Great Britain, the home of Sorby, the new science progressed at first
slowly, until it was taken up by Allport, Bonney, Judd, Rutley, and
others. In 1885 the evidence of the advance that had been made and of
the firm basis on which the new science was now placed appeared in
Teall’s great work, “British Petrography,” which marked an epoch in that
country in petrographic publication. This work was of importance also in
another direction than that of descriptive petrography, in that it
contains valuable suggestions for the application of the principles of
modern physical chemistry in solving the problems of the origin of
igneous rocks. In it, as in the publications of Lagorio, we see the
passage of the petrographic into the petrologic phase of the science.
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