| 释义 |
orycˈtology Now rare.
[mod. f. (F. oryctologie, 1755 in Hatz.-Darm.): see orycto- and -logy.]
The science of ‘fossils’ or things dug out of the earth, either (a) inorganic or (b) organic; a. the science which deals with the nature and composition of rocks and minerals, mineralogy; b. that department of geology which deals with fossil organic remains, palæontology.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Oryctology, is the part of physics which treats of fossils..Under this head comes the doctrine of salts, sulphurs, stones, gems and metals. 1804J. Parkinson Organic Rem. I. 21 To enumerate all the writers on oryctology of this period would be unnecessary. 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. vii. (ed. 2) 147 There was almost nothing known at the period of the oryctology of the older rocks. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 537, I know of no copy of the Oryctology of Moscow in this country. |