Edizione Geda-MAGMAX, 2011
It is the result of the fascinating challenge between the rigorous narration of scientific events and the passionate description of their creators. The attempt is to communicate the discoveries and ideas, to outline the characters and contexts that characterized the birth and development of mineralogy, a science that has always been at the side of Man. The communicative effort embraces the entire spectrum of human evolution, from the Paleolithic to the ancient civilizations, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, from the Baroque to the Enlightenment, from the nineteenth century to the third millennium.