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1642 M. R. Besler (title) Gazophylacium rerum naturalium, e regno vegetabili, animali, et minerali depromptarum.]

1650 J. F. tr. M. Sedziwój New Light of Alchymie 114 By the due separation, and conjunction of these, Nature produceth as well Metalls, as Stones, in the Minerall Kingdome [L. in regno minerali].

1676 T. Guidott Disc. Bathe Pref. sig. B^v I first made collection out of the best Mineral Authors, such as Fallopius, Agricola, Baccius, and others.

a1691 R. Boyle Christian Virtuoso ii. i. i. §3 in Wks. (1772) VI. 724 The mineral kingdom, as, after the chemists, most writers now call it.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 40 The bowels of the earth abound with..mother-of-pearl, and some other productions of the mineral kingdom.

1806 T. Jefferson Let. 11 Feb. in Writings (1984) 1160 They are headed therefore by persons qualified expressly to give us the geography of the rivers with perfect accuracy, and of good common knolege [sic] and observation in the animal, vegetable & mineral departments.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. Introd. p. iv I would propose..that the mineral kingdom be considered as divided into three provinces: 1. Petralogy..2. Lithology..3. Metallogy, or the knowledge of metals.

1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 225 Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization..as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.

1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 520/2 The study of the remaining elements and of their compounds constituting inorganic, or, as it is also termed, mineral chemistry.

1967 Amer. Mineralogist 52 1595 Department of Mineral Sciences, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

1989 S. Holbeche Power Gems & Crystals ii. 27 Through the ages almost every ‘Wisdom Teaching’ or spiritual teaching contains information about the use and abuse of the mineral kingdom.