Gorgeous Plates from an Early-20th-Century German Encyclopedia of Minerals | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.slate.com - September 29, 2015 5:16 PM
The illustrations below come from German scientist Reinhard Brauns' 1903 book, Das Mineralreich (The Mineral Kingdom). Google Books offers the English translation of this two-volume work, which has 73 colored plates in total.