[ad. mod.L. crystallographia, f. Gr. κρύσταλλος CRYSTAL + -γραφία writing, description: see -GRAPHY.
Used in Latin by M. A. Cappeller Prodromus Crystallographiæ, Lucerne 1723, in French by Romé de Lisle, Essai de Cristallographie, 1772.]
That branch of physical science which treats of the structure of crystals (CRYSTAL 9), and their systematic classification; a treatise on this subject.
1802. Bournon, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 239. Crystallography also offers some difficulties with respect to this stone.
1861. W. Pole, in Macm. Mag., III. 186/1. Dr. Wollaston, celebrated as almost the originator of the science of crystallography.
