In the stores of museums and university departments of mineralogy and crystallography, there are collections of sets of models of crystal shapes. Representing the external form of natural specimens, their use was for identification and demonstration purposes, by scientists, teachers and students from the late eighteenth century onwards. Whilst studying crystal model collections at the National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh, I came across the illustration work of Miss Delvalle Lowry. Her name, along with that of her father Wilson, appeared on plates illustrating an 1820 textbook by Nathaniel Larkin, a London teacher of solid geometry. Miss Lowry married the painter John Varley in 1825 and wrote a number of mineralogical texts that were reprinted through the first half of the nineteenth century. Delvalle Lowry was able to enjoy this career not least as a result of her ability to draw. The role of the Society of Arts in encouraging both drawing and the study of crystallography may well have been a feature of...

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阐释理想：十九世纪初的晶体模型和例证

在博物馆和大学的矿物学和晶体学部门的商店中，有许多晶体形状的模型集合。代表自然标本的外部形式，它们的用途是为了识别和演示，目的是从18世纪后期开始的科学家，教师和学生。在爱丁堡苏格兰国家博物馆研究晶体模型收藏的同时，我遇到了德尔瓦勒·洛瑞小姐的插图作品。她的名字和父亲威尔逊的名字一起出现在插图上，该插图展示了伦敦实体几何学老师纳撒尼尔·拉金（Nathaniel Larkin）于1820年编写的一本教科书。Lowry小姐于1825年与画家John Varley结婚，并撰写了许多矿物学著作，这些著作在19世纪上半叶被重印。Delvalle Lowry之所以能够享受这份职业，不仅是因为她具有绘画能力。艺术学会在鼓励绘画和晶体学研究方面的作用很可能是...