Crystallography: A very short introduction / Кристаллография: очень краткое введение

Despite such a wide abundance of crystals, it was not until the 17th century, with the move towards modern scientific rationalism, that the first real successes in understanding their nature since the times of the ancient Greeks were attained. It was the era of the Enlightenment that led to the systematic study of crystals or ‘crystallography’, the term having been coined by a Swiss physician, Maurice Capeller (1685–1769). <...>