Talk:Humphry Davy

Edit-a-thon: 4 May 2017
Hello, just to let you know, next week Lancaster University will be hosting an edit-a-thon focusing on Humphry Davy. See the event page here: WP:DAVY. So don't be alarmed if there is activity on this page from several new users! :-) Mark MacD (talk) 09:44, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Positioning of reference for a blockquote
Regarding this second revert. what does WP:MOS say about the positioning of a reference for a blockquote? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:10, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

"Cornish" (again)
Already extensively discussed previously (see Talk:Humphry Davy/Archive 1 and Talk:Humphry Davy/Archive 1) When did any consensus to use "Cornish" emerge? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:17, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * And no clear consensus emerged, certainly not the last time. The first one was mainly about whether to have an ethnicity field in the infobox saying Cornish. I certainly do not believe the claims made that people will be confused by using Cornish, properly linked, in the text. To admit that they would be so confused would be to regard our readers as congenital idiots. What has happened recently is someone has turned up and changed Cornish to English without any discussion or explanation, and another editor and I have restored what it said before. DuncanHill (talk) 17:46, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The encyclopaedia Britannica has him as English. Should it be changed to English.18:38, 4 December 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Halbared (talk • contribs)
 * EB also calls him British. DuncanHill (talk) 18:46, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * EB lists him under British chemists as a header, like all British chemists (scientists) and in his bio/lede puts him as an English chemist, like other English chemists.Halbared (talk) 18:56, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I really don't see how changing it would improve the article. I'm slightly surprised that someone would resurrect a thread over a year old, instead of starting a new one under an appropriate header. DuncanHill (talk) 19:05, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Depends if it's accurate or not. As it's the same topic, I didn't see why a new thread was needed as you two last discussed it. I looked at a few other good sites, and those who wrote bio's on Davy. A leaning towards English seems to be there.Halbared (talk) 19:27, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * A reasonable view point but you have to ask if the people writing the bios are truly neutral or if they are the same people who list famous Scottish inventors / scientists as British? I think its rather safe to say that Humphry Davy was fond of, and indeed influenced by his upbringing in Cornwall, much like Richard Trevithick. I don't find ethnicity being listed as Cornish particularly egregious. It's not like he was born in Cornwall and moved at a young age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elit3powars (talk • contribs) 19:29, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Davy's geological theories
The In popular culture section correctly notes:

> Jules Verne refers to Davy's geological theories in his 1864 novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth

It would be great to speak more of his geological beliefs and studies. Some possible sources


 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/4025808
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328441238_Negative_Geology_Humphry_Davy_and_forming_the_Royal_Institution's_Mineral_Collection_1803-1806
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/geological-theory
 * https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/352749?journalCode=isis
 * https://frenchquest.com/2021/11/09/jules-vernes-geological-paleontological-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth%EF%BF%BC/
 * https://digital.libraries.uc.edu/oesper/books/davy/index.html
 * https://www.amazon.com/Humphry-Davy-Geology-Lectures-Audience/dp/0299080307 (if somebody wants to buy a copy...)
 * https://www.nature.com/articles/288743a0

-- Dan Griscom (talk) 17:49, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Proper Annunciation of his discovery.
Sir Humphrey Davey is known for many things including aluminum. The spelling and denunciation of this word is incorrect on his known for section. Sir Humphrey Davey patented his Discovery as aluminum originally spelling it alumium; and later deciding on aluminum. The person who discovers an isolates an element is the person who gets to name it; and no one else. A lot of Brits call it aluminum because a bunch of Humphreys colleagues later changed it in an article to aluminium having an extra I in it's spelling because they felt that it went better with the other elements that end in ium. Colleagues in a scientific journal do not get to change or rename your discovery. The reason that Americans still enunciated the right way is an homage to Mr Humphrey for all that his Discovery did for our country. Which is all the more reason I don't understand why Brits argue this because Humphrey Davey was also a Brit and yet British people still argue the Annunciation of this while America is paying homage. If people want to keep calling it aluminium that's fine but they are incorrect, it is aluminum. 2601:985:4301:9C0:C8F2:D487:AC26:E6D3 (talk) 14:49, 8 July 2022 (UTC)


 * What about Mr Mendeleev? Maybe an historical footnote would help. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:05, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Isn't it sir Humphry DAVY, not Davey?
 * Only because I am a Davy and have been told of family connection 121.45.67.157 (talk) 05:04, 12 March 2023 (UTC)