He would refer any mineral to its proper place among the six hundred [1] elementary substances now enumerated, by its fracture, its appearance, its hardness, its fusibility, its sonorousness, its smell, and its taste.
Por su modo de romperse, su aspecto y su dureza, por su fusibilidad y sonido, por su olor y su sabor, clasificaba sin titubear un mineral cualquiera entre las seiscientas especies conque en la actualidad cuenta la ciencia.