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Collection, of large specimens, made by professional mining engineers who intended to provide a complete sample of the metals found in the Islands in the second half of the 19th century. The Isidro de collection is completely different. It is the collection of a “master's” student in mining engineering , who I believe intended to apply for a position as a professor at the future School of Mines. It is from the first half of the 19th century, when Mineralogy was developing as a modern science, and its author demonstrated advanced knowledge for the time . There must have been very few in the world. They are small but very significant and representative minerals , among which you can see very well crystallized specimens of “rare” or recently described species and many type localities. It seems to have been prepared as express support for a treatise on Mineralogy that the author never wrote.How complete and accurate is the documentation and cataloging that accompanies the Sainz de Baranda collection? Jesús: If we take into account the period when it was made, from 1831 to 1837, we can say that it is one of the most complete preserved in the world.
Crystallographic notations, classification criteria, locations and provenances are very detailed, precise and modern. They surprise even today. If we add to this original labels such as those signed by and Cell Phone Number List some crystallographic drawings that have been preserved, we can say that we are facing a true relic of Mineralogy . This comes to relocate the history of mineralogy and geology in Spain, since until now it had always been thought that Spain was a desert in this science until well into the 19th century. Sainz de Baranda, like other contemporaries such as Gómez Pardo, Amar de la Torre, Prado or Schulz , come to tell us that it was not like that. Specifically, Sainz de Baranda and Gómez Pardo can rub shoulders with the European elites. The pity is that none of them left hardly anything written and it is very difficult to reconstruct their knowledge . Taking advantage of the fact that you asked me before about parallels in this collection, where there are very evident ones, it is with the old collections of the School of Mines Museum. It is not strange, since Gómez Pardo and Baranda were classmates in Freiberg and later maintained their friendship.
Bismuth blende”, . , Saxony. x 1mm. Photo J. Callen As a lover of Mineralogy, Jesús, involved in different projects, you will have had the opportunity to see many rare and valuable specimens. In this collection, which one or which ones have surprised you the most? Jesús: There are many and I have already said why, but if I have to stay with a few I would do it with the eulitine (or “bismuth blend”) from Schneeberg, with the Saxon silvers and “red silvers”, with the plagionite ( “rosenite”), first find from the type locality of Wolfsberg with a label signed by Zincken, with chalcotricite (“red copper”) from the type locality in Saxony (of which few specimens are preserved), the Transylvanian golds, the Russian platinums and, for dessert, I would take a mimetita from the typical town in Johanngeorgenstadt. Then I would come back for some more. The collection is made up of more than 2,500 copies.
Crystallographic notations, classification criteria, locations and provenances are very detailed, precise and modern. They surprise even today. If we add to this original labels such as those signed by and Cell Phone Number List some crystallographic drawings that have been preserved, we can say that we are facing a true relic of Mineralogy . This comes to relocate the history of mineralogy and geology in Spain, since until now it had always been thought that Spain was a desert in this science until well into the 19th century. Sainz de Baranda, like other contemporaries such as Gómez Pardo, Amar de la Torre, Prado or Schulz , come to tell us that it was not like that. Specifically, Sainz de Baranda and Gómez Pardo can rub shoulders with the European elites. The pity is that none of them left hardly anything written and it is very difficult to reconstruct their knowledge . Taking advantage of the fact that you asked me before about parallels in this collection, where there are very evident ones, it is with the old collections of the School of Mines Museum. It is not strange, since Gómez Pardo and Baranda were classmates in Freiberg and later maintained their friendship.
Bismuth blende”, . , Saxony. x 1mm. Photo J. Callen As a lover of Mineralogy, Jesús, involved in different projects, you will have had the opportunity to see many rare and valuable specimens. In this collection, which one or which ones have surprised you the most? Jesús: There are many and I have already said why, but if I have to stay with a few I would do it with the eulitine (or “bismuth blend”) from Schneeberg, with the Saxon silvers and “red silvers”, with the plagionite ( “rosenite”), first find from the type locality of Wolfsberg with a label signed by Zincken, with chalcotricite (“red copper”) from the type locality in Saxony (of which few specimens are preserved), the Transylvanian golds, the Russian platinums and, for dessert, I would take a mimetita from the typical town in Johanngeorgenstadt. Then I would come back for some more. The collection is made up of more than 2,500 copies.