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September 25, 1749, birthday of German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner.
He published some of the first "modern" field guides using physical properties, like color, crystal shape, density and even taste to identify minerals. Almost 100 years later Charles Darwin still used some of Werner's books for his geological research
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