Papp Gábor: A magyar topografikus és leíró ásványtan története (Topographia Mineralogica Hungariae 7. Miskolc, 2002)

VI. ÚJ SZINTÉZISEK FELÉ? (az 1980-as évek közepe óta eltelt időszak)

FIGURE CAPTIONS *Remark: The present-day equivalents of the starred place names are given in "I. Mutató" (Index I). Unnumbered figures preceding the first page of the chapters page 16. A detail of the Charter of the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany (1055), with the first occurrence of ásvány, the Hungarian word for mineral (as asauuagi, original sense: ditch, dug, cf. fossa, fossilis in Latin), page 56. Title page of the first systematical mineralogy written in Hungarian: Magyar Minerologia, az az a kövek' 's értzek' Tudománya [Hungarian Mineralogy, i.e. the science of rocks and ores] by Ferenc Benkő (1786). page 142. Title page of the fourth (last) edition of the university textbook Ásványtan [Mineralogy] by József Szabó (1893). page 208. Title page of the first volume of the university textbook Ásványtan [Mineralogy] by Béla Mauritz and Aladár Vendl (1942). page 242. Title page of the first volume of the university textbook Ásványtan [Mineralogy] by Sándor Koch and Kálmán Sztrókay (1967). page 294. Title page of the Minerals of the Carpathians (edited by Sándor Szakáll), a new topographical mineralogy of the Carpathian countries (2002). page 366. Title page of the History of mineralogy in Hungary by Sándor Koch (1952) with Koch's dedication to his children. Fig. 1. A passage from Anonymus' Gesta Hungarorum, referring to gold washing and salt mining in Transylvania. Fig. 2. Quartz crystals from Selmecbánya*. (Born: Index fossilium, Vol. I, 1772). Fig. 3. Legendary gold-yielding vine-stock from Hungary. (Bél: Hungária antiquae et novae prodromus, 1723). Fig. 4. Sal gemma (crystalline rock salt) from Transylvania. (Brückmann: Magnalia Dei, 1727). Fig. 5. Double cross- and heart-shaped iron objects, turned into copper by the cement water at Urvölgy*. (Brückmann's Epistola itineraria, XL. 1735). Fig. 6. Route of Jakob Toll (Jacobus Tollius) and Edward Brown throughout Hungary. (1: Besztercebánya*). Fig. 7. Rock salt from Sóvár*. (Brückmann: Magnalia Dei, 1727). Fig. 8. Rock crystal (quartz) from Körmöcbánya*. (Brückmann: Magnalia Dei, 1727). Fig. 9. Stibnite from Körmöcbánya*. (Brückmann: Magnalia Dei, 1727). Fig. 10. "Máramaros diamond" (quartz). (Scopoli: Crystallographia Hungarica, 1776). Fig. 11. Native silver with marcasite and quartz, Selmecbánya*. (From Schmiedel's Erz Stuffen und Berg Arten. Nürnberg, 1753). Fig. 12. Front cover of Köleséri's Auraria Romano-Dacica (1717). Fig. 13. Native copper, Rudabánya, from Table XXIV of Volume III of Marsigli's Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus. "Native copper from Rudna [!]. It is developed in different protuberances, and its small areas are covered with blue vitriol." Fig. 14. Pyrite/marcasite concretions from the surroundings of Sopron. (Brückmann: Magnalia Dei, 1727).