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EducationLink to Atlas/planches of the Turner catalog by Levy?

16th May 2016 02:43 UTCVandall Thomas King Manager

I've been trying to find an online source to vies the atlas of Description D'Une Collection De Minéraux, formée par M. Henri Heuland et Apparterant a M. Ch. Hampden Turner, de Rooksnest, dans le comte de Surrey en Angleterre by Armand Levy 1837 and 1838. I've viewed about 25 scanned books so far, but the plates do not seem to be available. Does anyone have a link to the scanned atlas/planches?

16th May 2016 09:47 UTCJohan Kjellman Expert

Van, finally, I got it:

https://books.google.se/books?id=nnVCAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=sv#v=onepage&q&f=false

typically, this cannot be found by a "standard rational search", i.e. any selections from title and authors, but since I knew I browsed it about a year ago I knew it was "out there somewhere"

for some reason it only (?) appears after entering "armand levy" in the author field

lesson 1:

exhaust "all" search possibilities

lesson 2:

save link, save link, save link

cheers

16th May 2016 15:28 UTCVandall Thomas King Manager

Excellent. Thank you! I note that there were supposed to be LXXXIII plates, but the scanned book stops with LXXXI.

At http://www.annales.org/archives/x/armandlevy.html

J-M. Le Cleac'h says:

"La décision d'Heuland de faire achever les 28 dernières planches (et non pas 34 comme il le dit) de l'atlas par Brookes ne fut pas des plus heureuses. Celui ci semble avoir été un peu fâché avec les hémiédries, et Des Cloizeaux dans son célèbre mémoire sur le quartz mentionne plusieurs erreurs de notations de faces qu'il a relevées dans les planches dessinées par Brookes."

Do you think that was intended as an insult to Levy, because his newest mineral, willemite, was to be on the last plate?

16th May 2016 15:53 UTCJohan Kjellman Expert

Van King Wrote:

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> Excellent. Thank you! I note that there were

> supposed to be LXXXIII plates, but the scanned

> book stops with LXXXI.

....

> Do you think that was intended as an insult to

> Levy, because his newest mineral, willemite, was

> to be on the last plate?

No, if I understand your question right, because the scanned book or the scan itself is incomplete. There are two more plates, the minerals being pyrochlore (2), turnerite (2), willemite (2) yttria phosphaté (2), soufre natif (8) on plate 82, and finally 16 figures of diamond on plate 83.

cheers

16th May 2016 17:55 UTCVandall Thomas King Manager

I can keep looking, but I do have two drawings of willemite that come from Goldschmidt's Atlas der Kristallformen that seem to show Lévy’s crystallographic notation. The right image has been edited with "back edges off".

16th May 2016 18:59 UTCJohan Kjellman Expert

Van,

I have the atlas, I can supply you with any images you need. But don't expect any high quality, I hesitate to scan it because of the size and quality of the book.

here are the willemites, 1) the "forme primitive" and 2) in combination with a prism

cheers

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