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I think could be interesting having an history of the most important changes in various editions of this mineral classification. -- Sbisolo ( talk) 16:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC) reply

You need a source with an overview ;) -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 19:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC) reply

The story is complicated. As I understand, both, Strunz and Nickel were members of the IMA/CNMNC; so the story of the classification and the story of the IMA/CNMNC got entangled. You can see some notes here as well. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 18:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC) reply

And in a way, Theophrastus, Pliny the Elder, Georgius Agricola, August Breithaupt, Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs and James Dwight Dana were forerunners. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 18:27, 28 November 2011 (UTC) reply

• Theophrastus on stones: introduction, Greek text, English translation and commentary. Contributions in physical science. Columbus - O.: The Ohio State University. 1956. p. 238. {{ cite book}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= ( help)
  • Theophrastite, Theophrastus (c. 371-286 BC), Greek philosopher and writer, disciple of Aristotle, author of On Stones (315 BC)
• Pliny the Elder, author of Naturalis Historia (77 AD)
• Agricola, Georgius (1556), De Re Metallica, translated by H C Hoover and L H Hoover (1950)
• Breithaupt, August (1836–1847). Handbuch der Mineralogie (3 volumes). Dresden.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format ( link)
• Haidinger, Wilhelm (1845). Handbuch der bestimmenden Mineralogie. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel.
• Strunz, Hugo (1941). Mineralogische Tabellen. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Becker & Erler. p. 287.
• Strunz, Hugo (1949). Mineralogische Tabellen (2 ed.). Leipzig.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
• Strunz, Hugo (1957). Mineralogische Tabellen: eine Klassifizierung der Mineralien auf kristallchemischer Grundlage: mit einer Einführung in die Kristallchemie (3 ed.). Leipzig: Geest & Portig. p. 448.
• Strunz, Hugo; Tennyson, Christel (1978). Mineralogische Tabellen: eine Klassifizierung der Mineralien auf kristallchemischer Grundlage (7 ed.). Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig. p. 621.
• Povarennykh, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1972). Crystal chemical classification of minerals (Kristallochimičeskaja klassifikacija mineralʹnych vidov). Monographs in geoscience (2 volumes). New York: Plenum Press. ISBN  0-306-30348-5.
• Strunz, Hugo; Nickel, Ernest H. (2001). Strunz Mineralogical Tables. Chemical-structural Mineral Classification System (9 ed.). Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. p. 869. ISBN  978-3510651887.
• Dana, Strunz, IMA foundation, mindat.org/internet are parts of the history of mineralogy. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 02:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC) reply