History of Crystallography

I have a hunch that Group Theory discovered/predicted crystal lattices being the form of solid matter through point/space groups before we could inspect them indirectly with X-Ray Diffraction and directly with Electron Microscopy.

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• Histories of Crystallography by Shafranovskii and Schuh
  • https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/39125
  • PDF download: https://www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/Cristalografia/archivos_10/InTech-Histories_of_crystallography.pdf
  • Authors: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/bart-kahr.html & https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/alexander-shtukenberg.html
• Schuh’s Mineralogy and Crystallography: An Annotated Biobibliography of Books Published 1469 to 1919. Tucson, 2007. Vol 1
  • https://archive.org/details/BioBib_Mineralogy_2007_Vol_1/page/n655/mode/2up
• Schuh’s Mineralogy & Crystallography: On the History of these Sciences through 1919
  • https://archive.org/details/History_Mineralogy_2007/page/n475/mode/2up
• Schuh’s Annotated Bio-Bibliography of Mineralogy and Eulogy
  • https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new-biobibliography-schuhs-biobibliography/