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	Werner \| Abraham Gottlob \| 1750-1817 \| German geologist, inspector and teacher, Freiberg Mining Academy
		Werner's father was inspector of the Duke of Solm's ironworks, and he wished his son to join him there one day.
		Werner the mineralogist, recognizing that chemistry and crystallography were not sophisticated enough to help establish a mineralogical system, worked up simple descriptive standards of classification instead, sure enough for the time being that external characteristics were not unrelated to chemical makeup.
		Werner the geologist was the first to work out a complete schema for the earth's structure, and in particular, the history of its formation.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0352.html (447 words)

	Abraham Gottlob Werner - LoveToKnow 1911
		ABRAHAM GOTTLOB WERNER (1750-1817), father of German geology, was born in Upper Lusatia, Saxony, on the 25th of September 1750.
		Werner's followers preached the doctrine of the aqueous origin of rocks, and were known as Neptunists; their opponents, who recognized the important part taken in the construction of the earth's crust by subterranean heat, were styled Vulcanists.
		Though much of Werner's theoretical work was erroneous, science is indebted to him for so clearly demonstrating the chronological succession of rocks, for the enthusiastic zeal which he infused into his pupils, and for the impulse which he thereby gave to the study of geology.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Abraham_Gottlob_Werner (725 words)

	Abraham Gottlob Werner
		Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 or 1750 - 1817), was born in Wehrau, a city in Prussian Silesia, southeastern Germany.
		Werner was educated at Freiberg and Leipzig, where he studied law and mining, and was then appointed as Inspector and Teacher of Mining and Mineralogy at the small, but influential, Freiberg Mining Academy in 1775.
		Werner was certainly the most influential geologist of the early portion of the Industrial Revolution.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/a/ab/abraham_gottlob_werner.html (881 words)

	World of Earth Science \| Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749-1817)
		One of the founders of stratigraphy, Abraham Werner was one of the first to apply the modern scientific method to many geological problems, had a powerful and positive influence on his scientists, and was one of the first to attempt a description of the geological history of the world free from religious and mystical explanations.
		Werner was one of the first to think of the earth as a whole, and called his new approach "geognosy." Werner's field work, which was mainly in Saxony, convinced him that the opposing view, that ancient rock had a volcanic origin (Vulcanism), was incorrect.
		Werner was elected to 22 scientific societies in his lifetime, and he was eulogized by followers and opponents alike after his death in Dresden in 1817.
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	Abraham Gottlob Werner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unfortunately, Werner was plagued by frail health his entire life, and passed a quiet existence in the immediate environs of Freiberg.
		Werner applied superposition in a classification similar to that of Johann Gottlob Lehmann.
		Werner believed that these rocks reflected the local effects of burning coal beds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner (955 words)

	Abraham Gottlob Werner Summary
		Abraham Werner was born on Sept. 25, 1749, at Wehrau in Upper Lusatia (Prussian Silesia).
		Although Werner recognized that a true and final classification of minerals should be based on their chemical composition, he emphasized that it should be preceded by a method which would allow a precise identification of the various minerals by means of their external characters and physical properties.
		Werner was one of the first to think of the earth as a whole, and called his new approach "geognosy." Werner's field work, which was mainly in Saxony, convinced him that the opposing view, that ancient rock had a volcanic origin (Vulcanism), was incorrect.
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	Rocky Road: Abraham Gottlob Werner
		This view, which had been in existence before Werner promoted it, was accepted almost without question and prevailed until overturned by James Hutton near the close of the 18th century.
		Despite a keen understanding of rock minerology, Werner redefined "formation" to refer not to the chemical makeup of a rock, but to the timing of its development.
		Werner didn't overturn the commonly held belief in the biblical flood, but he did recognize a different group of rocks that didn't fit this classification: rocks with a few fossils that were younger than primary rocks but older than secondary rocks.
	www.strangescience.net /werner.htm (270 words)

	a26 What was neptunism?
		Abraham Werner (1749-1817) taught that all rocks with a crystalline texture, such as granite and basalt, were precipitated in an orderly sequence from a worldwide, primeval, ocean.
		Werner’s formations were volumes of rock of mountainous proportions that in various localities had been described by others.
		In Werner’s scheme, volcanics rocks (his Vulkanishe formation that detractors to his classification of all rocks as sedimentary had required him to recognize) are of minor importance; all being young.
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	Abraham Werner: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Werner was a celebrated professor of mineralogy and mining who was famous throughout all Europe.
		Werner is best known for his neptunist theory for the evolution of the Earth in which he envisioned the different rock formations precipitating out of a primordial ocean.
		In 1817, Werner died and the next year Mohs was called to Freiberg to succeed his old teacher as professor of mineralogy.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/Werner_Abraham_30564183.aspx (456 words)

	Reading notes: Geology c. 1800
		Abraham Werner was probably the most influential geologist of the late 18th century.
		Werner's scheme was the common interpretive framework for most workers, in part due to his teaching abilities.
		Werner's model outlined a history based on the sequence of strata, but the advances in studying volcanoes and srtatigraphic sequences called his interpretation into question.
	www.uwm.edu /People/mtharris/Lyell03/RN0.htm (2034 words)

	Werner and the Aqueous Origin of Basalt, 1789 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Werner was a professor at the mining academy at Freiberg in Saxony, and a well-respected mineralogist.
		Werner was a neptunist, meaning he believed that all of the earth’s rocks were deposited from water.
		Werner also believed that volcanoes were unimportant in shaping the earth’s surface.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/vulcan/35.shtml (171 words)

	John Benjamins: Contributions by Werner Abraham
		Werner Abraham is author/editor of the following titles.
		Werner Abraham is editor/board member of the following series.
		In On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania, Abraham, Werner (ed.), 217 ff.
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	Reading Notes 18th c mineralogy and Werner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The key point is for you to understand Werner's basic model, and how it integrated most of the geological data of his time.
		Werner's essay "On the external characters of minerals" presented a key to mineral identification that did not rely on destructive tests.
		The only text by Werner that we have that presents his theory is the relatively short "Short Classification and Description of the Various Rocks", although the notes and publications of his students provide additional information about his ideas.
	www.uwm.edu /People/mtharris/HGT2006/RN4-5.htm (722 words)

	Werner — FactMonster.com
		Werner robbed Stralenheim of a rouleau of gold, but scarcely had he done so when he recognised in Ulric his lost son, and child him for saving the count.
		Werner recovered his dominion, but found that his son was a murderer, and imagination is left to fill up the future fate of both father and son.
		Abraham Gottlob Werner - Werner, Abraham Gottlob, 1750–1817, German geologist.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/werner.html (230 words)

	Abraham Gottlob Werner
		Abraham Gottlob Werner (*1749 o 1750-?1817) fue un científico alemán.
		Werner se educó en Freiberg y en Leipzig, donde estudió leyes, minería y mineralogía y fue entonces nombrado inspector y profesor de la pequeña pero influyente Academia de Minería de Freiberg en 1775.
		Durante su carrera, la fama de Werner se difundió por toda Europa, atrayendo a estudiantes que más tarde se convertirían en sus colaboradores; entre ellos se encontraban Robert Jameson que llegaría a ser un afamado profesor en Edimburgo y el español-mexicano Andrés Manuel del Río, descubridor del vanadio.
	www.boonic.com /enciclopedia/61713.php (169 words)

	Alfred Werner - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Werner, Alfred (1866-1919), French-born Swiss chemist, and Nobel laureate.
		Werner's application of geometry to chemistry helped identify the...
		Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1750-1817), German geologist and mineralogist, who helped to establish geology and mineralogy as two distinct sciences...
	encarta.msn.com /Alfred_Werner.html (78 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Werner, Abraham Gottlob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ABRAHAM WERNER'S INFO Detailed accurate background data from $9.95.
		In 1775 he became inspector and teacher in the mining academy at Freiberg, which through his efforts became one of the leading schools in Germany.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Werner, Abraham Gottlob" at HighBeam.
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	Bulb Farms
		Abraham Werner moved to McKinleyville in l942 and purchased the 160 acre Murray ranch from Lawrence Murray.
		It was he who went to Oregon and bought three orange crates of Croft lily bulbs for $7,500 (about $80,000 in 1999 dollars), then renting a 1/2 to 1 acre parcel to several families (20-25) who grew lilies for the bulb market.
		Abraham made a profit that first year and continued to grow bulbs for market.
	www.humgardens.com /contents/articles/bulb_farms.htm (1551 words)

	ABRAHAM GOTTLOB WERNER... - Online Information article about ABRAHAM GOTTLOB WERNER... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")
		One of the distinguishing features of Werner's teaching was the care with which he taught lithology and the See also:
		Though much of Werner's theoretical work was erroneous, science is indebted to him for so clearly demonstrating the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WERNER_ABRAHAM_GOTTLOB_1750_181.html (982 words)

	W. Abraham: Ergative diagnostics: temptatio redux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		According to Abraham (2002), however, this claim rests on opaque assumptions, which, if transferred to and ckecked carefully on the typological comparison with German and Dutch, turn out to be arbitrary and non-conclusive.
		Truly ergative or split ergative languages (Abraham 2001) exhibit a structural relation between the external and internal arguments which are quite similar to the ones postulated by initiators of the ergative discussion for Indo-European languages (Perlmutter/Postal 1984, Burzio 1989).
		Abraham, Werner (2000): "The aspect-case typology correlation: perfectivity triggering (split) ergativity.
	www.linguistik-online.de /13_01/abraham.html (2739 words)

	Linguist List - Reviews Available for the Book
		Subject: Abraham and Zwart, Issues in Formal German(ic) typology Abraham, Werner, and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, eds.
		Werner Abraham and Laszlo Molnarfi, "German clause structure under discourse functional weight: Focus and antifocus", show that functions such as thema and rhema, which reflect the discourse context of the sentence, are inextricable from the grammar.
		Even the four German-based themes identified by editor Abraham in his introduction reveal a particular interest in matters of discourse, an interest foregrounded in only three of the articles, namely those by him and Laszlo Molnarfi and that of Jocelyn Cohan.
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	Abraham Gottlob Werner - Wikipedia
		Werner wurde als Sohn des Gräflich-Solmsschen Eisenhüttenwerksinspektors zu Wehrau und Lorzendorf (Lorenzdorf, heute: Ławszowa), Abraham David Werner, geboren und bereits 1764 als Hüttenschreiber und Gehilfe bei seinem Vater angestellt.
		Werner entwickelte auch eine der ersten systematischen Mineral-Klassifikationen, die heute allerdings nicht mehr in Gebrauch ist; seine Kennzeichenlehre und die Mineralbeschreibungen gelten jedoch als klassisch.
		Werner war der Ansicht, dass der Ursprung der Bildung von Mineralen und der Veränderung der Erdoberfläche im Wasser zu suchen sei und begründete damit den so genannten Neptunismus: Alle Gesteine entstanden demnach hintereinander in einem durch die Sintflut geschaffenen Ozean; erst wurden magmatische, dann metamorphe Gesteine, darauf Sedimentgesteine und schließlich Oberflächensedimente abgelagert.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner (379 words)

	OU History of Science
		The Abraham Gottlob Werner Research Collection was dedicated in a ceremony in the OU History of Science Collections on September 1, 1999.
		Establishment of the Werner Collection in the OU History of Science Collections, thus locating at OU perhaps the greatest concentration of original Werner materials outside Freiberg, occurs with the agreement of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg Rektor, Ernst Schlegel.
		Alex Ospovat is internationally recognized as a leading historian of geology, and especially as a pioneering researcher concerning Werner's role in early geology.
	www.ou.edu /cas/hsci/whatsnew-werner2.htm (475 words)

	Amazon.com: "Abraham Gottlob Werner": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In chapter 5, 1 examine how Abraham Gottlob Werner drew on both the Becher-Stahl cosmogonic tradition and the work in mineral taxonomy to construct a geological ("geognostic") theory that...
		Le gologue Abraham Gottlob Werner (1740-1817) - professeur d'immense prestige qui enseignait l'cole des mines de Freiberg en...
		Abraham Gottlob Werner disliked the term as being too suggestive of theorizing, and promoted the alternative "geognosy.
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	WMNH - Geology and Astronomy
		While not all catastro-phists accepted the 6,000 year age for the Earth, it had wide appeal among theologians and was basically consistent with a relatively young Earth.
		Abraham Werner (1749-1817) wrote a book which challenged catastrophism.
		His encompassing theory known as "neptunism" stated that all rock sequences(including igneous rocks) were precipitated out of a huge primieval ocean.
	www.wmnh.com /wmas0002.htm (1745 words)

	Igneous Rocks
		In an attempt to organize rocks into a simple easily understood system, the 18th century german mineralogist Abraham Werner proposed that all rocks were precipitated in layers from a universal sea.
		Because he was highly respected by his peers, Werner's theory, called Neptunism, gained wide acceptance and was not questioned.
		Eventually Werner's theory was disproven by studies of volcanic rocks.
	www.geo.ua.edu /intro03/Ignis.html (2192 words)

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		On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania, 47-131, ed by Werner Abraham.
		Erkl\'e4rende Syntax des Deutschen, 173-200, ed by Werner Abraham.
		On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania, 3-45, ed by Werner Abraham.
	www.tamu.edu /mocl/MALLEN/REPORT/Report.doc (5934 words)

	Science & Religion \|\| Diluvial Geology
		In the late 1700s to early 1800s, Abraham Werner worked with the idea that rock layers represented sedimentation from an early ocean that later withdrew.
		Werner's school was immensely productive over many decades.
		The primary difference between Werner and the diluvialists was just the particular timing(s) of flood waters.
	www1.umn.edu /ships/religion/diluvial.htm (1036 words)

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