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- He taught Geognosy at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.
- Werner believed that geognosy represented fact and not theory.
- He also discussed a geognosy of the peripheral parts of the Earth : geology of the crust, hydrography, and atmospharologie.
- Werner is credited with coining the term geognosy, for the geological study of the Earth's structure, specifically its exterior and interior construction.
- His followers resisted speculation, and as a result Wernerian geognosy and Neptunism became dogma and ceased to contribute to further understanding of the history of the Earth.
- He coined the term " geognosy " ( meaning " knowledge of the Earth " ) to define a science based on the recognition of the order, position, and relation of the layers forming the Earth.
- He gave renowned lectures on fringe science ( animal magnetism, clairvoyance and dream ), and in 1819 he occupied the chair in natural history in Erlangen where he studied botany ( botanical abbreviation : "'Schub . "'), forestry, mineralogy and geognosy.
- In 1851, when the Geological Survey of Bavaria was instituted, Gumbel was appointed chief geologist; in 1863 he was made honorary professor of geognosy and surveying at the university of Munich, and in 1879, Oberberg director of the Bavarian mining department with which the Geological Survey was incorporated.
- Carl Friedrich Naumann used the term in 1849 in a new context in his " Lehrbuch der Geognosie ", portraying " geophysics " as one of three parts of the geognosy of the whole Earth, along with geodesy and Abyssologie, the science of the deep Earth.