Author: Fournet, Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier [1801-1869]
Title: Sur la volzine ou oxifulsure de zinc de Rosiers [together with one other extract by Fournet]
Description: [Paris], ca. 1833. 20x12cm, 16 + 33 pp. TWO ITEMS. Caption titles. "Sur la volzine" is waterstained.. Disbound. Without wrappers. Minor wear. Good. ¶ This is a collection of two separate extracts, both authored by the French mineralogist Fournet. Includes: 1) "Sur la volzine ou oxifulsure [sic] de zinc de Rosiers, près Pontgibaud, Département du Puy-de-Dôme" [ca. 1833? 16pp]; 2) "Mémoire sur la décomposition des minerais d'origine ignée, et leur conversion en kaolin" [ca. 1834; 33pp, "Extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique, mars 1834"] ["Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, French geologist and metallurgist, was born at Strasbourg. He was educated at the École des Mines in Paris, and after considerable experience as a mining engineer he was in 1834 appointed professor of geology at Lyon. He was a man of wide knowledge and extensive research, and wrote memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the Jura, the metamorphism of the Western Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous veins. On metallurgical subjects he also was an acknowledged authority; and he published observations on the order of sulphurability of metals (loi de Fournet)" - wikipedia]

Keywords: History of Science, Geology, France, Chemistry, Metallurgy, Zinc, French Mineralogy, ,