Re: Worldwide Precious Gem Stone Development

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Sep 26, 2007, 5:24:11 AM9/26/07
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Heh, heh: Looks like a little spam made its way onto our rarely
corrupted aristotle-logic list! Well, I would like to point readers to
"Meterologica" Book IV, Chapter X for some of Aristotle's notes on
mineralogy.

What is something composed of, and how is it formed?

According to Aristotle ("Meterologica," IV,X) the following are
composed of water: gold, silver, bronze, tin, lead, glass, and many
kinds of stone without name; for these are melted by heat. But Earth
predominates in iron, horn, nail, bone, sinew, wood, hair, leaves and
bark....

Well, it's kind of weird to read these things, but the spam does raise
the point that Aristotle's logical theory was so advanced that we
really didn't discover its depth until the late 20th century, whereas
The Philosopher's material science was kind of primitive, but at least
attempted to group things according to their physical characteristics
at the human, macro level.

--Ron

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