Talk:Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

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I have greatly expanded the article on Deodat de Dolomieu for the Wikipedia. The article is based on an earlier article that I wrote for a college text published by University of Missouri which is out of print. I used as principal sources Carozzi and Zenger (1981) in which there is an English translation of Dolomieu (1791) and Zenger et al. (1994). I also used a dusty old volume on scientific biography to which I no longer have access, otherwise I would cite it below also. I look forward to any additions and/or corrections. Jay Gregg 12:40 21 August, 2005

Place of death
The current location name Chateuneuf is clearly not correct (typo + need to be disambiguated). Any better version of the location name? olivier (talk) 08:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Not found in the Dolomites
It is important to note that the samples that Dolomieu described in 1791 were not collected in the (what's nowadays called) Dolomites range but in the Tribulaun subgroup of the southern Stubai Alps, some 80 kilometres northwest of the Dolomites. He writes on page 6 that he took the samples from a river (Eisack?) in the area of "Sterzing and the nearby villages" (supposedly Gossensaß as this fits his later description of the mountains best). The name was first applied to the Dolomites group only in 1864 by a British tourist guide. StonerLemonBlues (talk) 10:55, 6 November 2022 (UTC)