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History of major changes in classification

I think could be interesting having an history of the most important changes in various editions of this mineral classification. --Sbisolo (talk) 16:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You need a source with an overview ;) --Chris.urs-o (talk) 19:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The story is complicated. As I understand, both, Strunz and Nickel were members of the IMA/CNMNC; so the story of the classification and the story of the IMA/CNMNC got entangled. You can see some notes here as well. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 18:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And in a way, Theophrastus, Pliny the Elder, Georgius Agricola, August Breithaupt, Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs and James Dwight Dana were forerunners. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 18:27, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Theophrastus on stones: introduction, Greek text, English translation and commentary. Contributions in physical science. Columbus - O.: The Ohio State University. 1956. p. 238. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
- Theophrastite, Theophrastus (c. 371-286 BC), Greek philosopher and writer, disciple of Aristotle, author of On Stones (315 BC)
Pliny the Elder, author of Naturalis Historia (77 AD)
Agricola, Georgius (1556), De Re Metallica, translated by H C Hoover and L H Hoover (1950)
Breithaupt, August (1836–1847). Handbuch der Mineralogie (3 volumes). Dresden.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
Haidinger, Wilhelm (1845). Handbuch der bestimmenden Mineralogie. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel.
Strunz, Hugo (1941). Mineralogische Tabellen. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Becker & Erler. p. 287.
Strunz, Hugo (1949). Mineralogische Tabellen (2 ed.). Leipzig.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Strunz, Hugo (1957). Mineralogische Tabellen: eine Klassifizierung der Mineralien auf kristallchemischer Grundlage: mit einer Einführung in die Kristallchemie (3 ed.). Leipzig: Geest & Portig. p. 448.
Strunz, Hugo; Tennyson, Christel (1978). Mineralogische Tabellen: eine Klassifizierung der Mineralien auf kristallchemischer Grundlage (7 ed.). Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig. p. 621.
Povarennykh, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1972). Crystal chemical classification of minerals (Kristallochimičeskaja klassifikacija mineralʹnych vidov). Monographs in geoscience (2 volumes). New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-30348-5.
Strunz, Hugo; Nickel, Ernest H. (2001). Strunz Mineralogical Tables. Chemical-structural Mineral Classification System (9 ed.). Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. p. 869. ISBN 978-3510651887.
Dana, Strunz, IMA foundation, mindat.org/internet are parts of the history of mineralogy. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 02:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]