"Geognosy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... return loaded with those numerous collections, which are the principal objects of their research. This is not the feeling of those who, without confounding descriptive mineralogy (oryctognosy) with geognosy, endeavour to raise themselves to ideas generally interesting, and seek, in the study of nature, for answers ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt |
