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Haüy was a French mineralogist and considered to be the founder of crystallography. He noticed the angles and cleve lines were clearly defined and fixed when a sample of calcite was broken and began an extensive study of other crystals. He established the symmetry law that showed crystals are formed by fixed laws.?
Hutton was a Scottish natural philosopher who is considered to be the founder of modern geology. He apposed the Neptunist theories of the day where all rocks were formed from a single large flood. Hutton's believed the interior of the Earth was a large heat engine that continuously creates new rocks and these rocks are eroded by water and air to form the layered sedimentary rocks.
1822 - René-Just Haüy died.
Haüy was a French mineralogist and considered to be the founder of crystallography. He noticed the angles and cleve lines were clearly defined and fixed when a sample of calcite was broken and began an extensive study of other crystals. He established the symmetry law that showed crystals are formed by fixed laws.?
1726 - James Hutton was born.
Hutton was a Scottish natural philosopher who is considered to be the founder of modern geology. He apposed the Neptunist theories of the day where all rocks were formed from a single large flood. Hutton's believed the interior of the Earth was a large heat engine that continuously creates new rocks and these rocks are eroded by water and air to form the layered sedimentary rocks.
