11 Healing crystals you need in your life
Crystals have been used for their healing properties for thousands of years. A crystal is a solid body with a geometrically regular shape. The name 'crystal' originates from the greek word "krystallos" which means 'ice'. The Ancient Greeks believed that crystals were actually deep frozen water that would never melt again. This was a belief until 1673 when a man named Robert Boyle, a british scientist, began to doubt this theory. It took another 100 years after Boyles debate on the formation of crystals for scientist to take great interest in the laws governing the phenomenon of crystals. In 1784 A french school master by the name of Rene-Just Hauy dropped a Calcite crystal which split it into several pieces. Although frustrated with himself for having done this, it allowed him to make a very important discovery: the pieces of the shattered crystal all resembled one another. Hauy discovered that crystals have a certain geometric shape right down to their sma...