Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

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years ago Babylonians constructed lapidaries – books that tried to pin down the magical secrets of rocks.

She weaves stone through human history showing us how we gave different types of stone the power of royalty and worship. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.And though I read this book straight through from start to finish, this is absolutely the sort of bibliomantic tome that one might flip through at random, choosing a chapter based on mood or whim: learn a weird rock fact, let it lodge in your brain like a wayward pebble in your shoe, and allow it to guide your energies for the day. Then electricity is brought up again (without the connection back to elektron) and we are taken through a jarring summary of the discovery of amber's properties with a profusion of unexplained quotes.

A collection of extravagant stories about artists, miners, princes, chancers, criminals - and above all collectors .She breaks down the history of each individual stone and how it’s impacted the human race through history. This randomness does make it more interesting as amethyst is followed by cairngorm and tuff precedes turquoise. Find out how a Greek monster created coral , moon rock explains the history of Earth's only satellite and obsidian inspired the world's favourite computer game.

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