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Some rare gemological works have been published before 1600. Usually within a religious, medicinal and superstiticious context. Famous physicist Boyle was one of the first to provide a systematic gemological study of gemstones, and to look at refractive characteristics (rainbow effect) in the Diamond.

With the onset of the Renaissance the physical sciences started to develop more independently. Before the 1600's, medicine, gems, gemology, geology were treated in one discourse. By 1800 those had all developed into separate disciplines. Find a selection of publications in between 1600 and 1800 here.

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A.H. Church. Precious Stones in Science, Art
Agricola. De Re Metallica.
Agricola. Textbook of Mineralogy.
Al-Biruni. Book of Stones.
Albertus Magnus. Virtue of Stones.
Aristotle Meteorology.
Bahadur. A Handbook Of Precious Stones.
Ball. Diamonds Coal and Gold of India.
Bastin. Geology Pegmatites Maine.
Beveridge. Baburnama.
Bowie. Hydraulic Mining in California.
Boyle. Essay on Virtue of Gems.
Boyle. Experiments Touching Colours.
Bradford. The Berringa Gold-Field
Bradford. The Clunes Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Dunolly Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Dunolly-Wedderburn Gold-Fields.
Bradford. The Egerton-Gordon Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Enfield Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Harrietville Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Lauriston-Drummord Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Maldon Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Nerrena Or Little Bendigo Gold-Field.
Bradford. The Pyrenees Gold-Fields.
Bradford. The Stawell Gold-Field.
Bulletin Imperial institute. Anakie Sapphire.
Burnham. Precious Stones.
Castellani. Gems.
Castellani. Jewellery of the Ancients.
Catelle. Precious Stones.
Catelle. The Diamond.
Catelle. The Pearl.
Chapuzeau. History of Jewels.
Crookes. Diamonds
Culin. Gems and Precious Stones of Arizona.
Dana. Science and The Bible.
Dieulafait. Diamonds and Precious Stones.
Dumas. A Gil Blas in California.
Earp. Gold Colonies of Australia.
Emanuel. Diamonds and Precious Stones.
Farrington. Gems and Gem Minerals.
Ferguson. Gold Gems and Pearls in Ceylon and India.
Fernie. Precious Stones in Curative Wear
Feuchtwanger. Treatise on Precious Stones.
Gardner. Travels Gold, Diamond Districts Brazil.
Goodchild. Precious Stones.
Gratacap. Geology of New York.
Gregory. Ernest Oppenheimer Biography.
Hahn. Diamond.
Hershey. Book of the Diamond.
Jackson. California Gold Rush Album.
Jeffries. Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls.
Jennings. Visit To Gold Fields Wynaad.
Jobim. The Mineral Wealth of Brazil.
Jossic. 1050. Jewelry Designs.
King. Gem Engraving.
King. Gems Or Decorative Stones.
King. Natural History of Precious Stones.
King. Precious Stones and Precious Metals.
Kornitzer. Gem Trader.
Kornitzer. Pearl Trader.
Kunz. Gems in North Carolina.
Kunz. Ivory and The Elephant.
Kunz. Magic Of Jewels.
Kunz. Precious Stones of North America.
Kunz. Rings For The Finger.
Kunz. Shakespeare and Precious Stones
Kunz. The Book of the Pearl.
Kunz. The Curious Lore Of Precious Stones.
Lewiss. Genesis and Matrix of The Diamond.
Louderback. Benitoite.
Louderback. Benitoite. Gem Mineral.
Mastin. Chemistry of Precious Stones.
McCarthy. Fire in The Earth.
Morgenthau. Minerals and Cut Stones.
Nicols. Lapidary of History Gemstones.
Nitze. Gold Mining in North Carolina.
Orpen. Stories About Precious Stones.
Parsons. Synthetic Diamond.
Radcliffe. The Leyden Papyrus.
Radcliffe. The Stockholm Papyrus.
Smith. Diamonds, Pearls and Precious Stones.
Smith. Gems and Precious Stones.
Smyth. Journey on the Upper Mekong.
Streeter: Great (Famous) Diamonds
Streeter: Pearls and Pearling Life
Streeter: Precious Stones and Gems
Tarikh. Kuh-E-Nur.
Tavernier: Travels in India I
Tavernier: Travels in India II
Theophrastus on Stones.
Thureau. Mining in California and Nevada
US Geol. Surv. 1882. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1883-84. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1885. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1886. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1887. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1888. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1889-90. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1891. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1892. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1893. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1898-99. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1901. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1903. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1904. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1905. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1906. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1907. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1908. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1909. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1910. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1911. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1912. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1913. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1914. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1915. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1916. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1917. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1918. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1919. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1920. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1921. Gemstones, Metals.
US Geol. Surv. 1922. Gemstones, Metals.
Williams: Diamond Mines South Africa I
Williams: Diamond Mines South Africa II
Wodiska. A Book of Precious Stones.

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