Pliny the Elder also mentions this practice in Naturalis Historia.
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In 1691 Duillier planned to
prepare a new version of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, but never finished it.
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Books on the subject included the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder which not only
described many different minerals but also explained many of their properties.
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The oldest treatise on the virtues of the stones available to us is On the rocks by the Greek philosopher
Theophrastus(371-287 BC), to which Pliny the Elder(23/ 24-79 AD) also refers in his Naturalis Historia.