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)

1774: jsS Born, Ignaz von: Briefe über mineralogische Gegenstände auf seiner Reise durch das Temeswarer Bannat, Siebenbürgen, Ober- und Nieder-Hungarn.... (Frankfurt and Leipzig). Report of a Transylvanian-born author on his montanistic travel in 1770, with numerous mineralogical observations. 1774: £0 The Department of Natural History of the University of Nagyszombat is established (the first professor is the Styrian-born Mathias Piller). •=> 1784 1770s: [Wf] The first large mineral collections for educational purposes are formed at the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya* and the University of Nagyszombat*. 1776: mi Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio: Crystallographia Hungarica (Prague). Classical crystallographical book by a professor of the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya*, from the times preceding the development of geometrical crystallography. 1777: £9 The first Ratio Educationis. Natural history - including mineralogy - is introduced into the national curriculum. •=> 1849 1777: ffll The Royal Hungarian University is transferred to Buda. 1778: es Piller, Mathias: Elementa históriáé naturalis, Pars 3. Regnum minérale (Nagyszombat* and Buda). The first mineralogy textbook published in Hungary (for primary and secondary education). •=> 1799 1780: & Fichtel, Johann Ehrenreich von: Beytrag zur Mineralgeschichte von Siebenbürgen, I-II (Nürnberg). A book on geology-palaeontology and salt mining (volumes I and II, respectively) by a Hungarian author, with an outline of the topographical mineralogy of Transylvania in the first volume. 1780: & Molnár, János (1780): Oryctologicon, complexion históriáé naturalis mineralium (Buda). A mineralogical textbook, written in Latin (verse) by a Hungarian author. <=> 1783 1782-83: jj The first description of the element later named tellurium (by Franz Joseph Müller, mining councillor at Nagyszeben*). 1783: [fi Molnár, János (1783): A Természet Három Országinak rövéd ismertetése [A brief description of the Three Kingdoms of Nature], A Hungarian natural history with a mineralogical section, published in the periodical Magyar KönyvHáz (Pozsony*). 1784: MS Benkő, Ferenc: Werner Ábrahám úrnak a, köveknek és értzeknek külső megesmértetőjegyeikről írt szép, és igen hasznos könyvetskéje [The nice and indeed useful booklet of Abraham Werner about the distinctive external characteristics of stones and ores] (Kolozsvár*). Hungarian translation of the fundamental work of Wernerian mineralogy, Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (the earliest translation of Werner's book). 1784: EQ Following the move of the university from Buda to Pest, the Department of Natural History is divided into two parts, Dept. of General Natural History (including agriculture and technology) and the Dept. of Particular Natural History (história naturalis specialis, i.e. the Dept. of Zoology and Mineralogy). The latter is displaced from the Faculty of Arts to the Faculty of Medicine. «=> 1849 1786: JSS Benkő, Ferenc: Magyar Minerologia, az az a' kövek' s' értzek' Tudománya [Hungarian Mineralogy, i.e. the science of stones and ores] (Kolozsvár*). The first systematical mineralogy written in Hungarian.