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Perhaps the mineral sausserite is named after him. Dentren | Talk 14:15, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
In their standard work on the subject 'Glaciers & Glaciation' (Arnold, London 1998) Douglas Benn and David Evans claim that it was 'de Saussure' who in 1786 coined the term familiar to geography students for an ice-smoothed rock in a glaciated region. He saw in these rocks a resemblance to the wigs that were fashionable amongst gentry in his era and which were smoothed over with mutton fat hence 'moutonnee' so as to keep the hair in place. Anyone know anything more about this?
Geopersona (
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04:36, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I commented out the following section in the article, referring to the lead image.
I think that this is actually a statue of Michel-Gabriel Paccard the first person to climb Mont Blanc
Feel free to add the image back if you are able to definitively confirm/deny this claim. But such discussion belongs here and not in the actual article. Thanks! Plastikspork ( talk) 16:25, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
The article says: "The genus of high alpine plants Saussurea, some adapted to growing in some of the most extreme high alpine climates tolerated by any plant, is named after him."
The article on Saussurea says that the genus is named after his son Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure instead; this is supported by Store Norske Leksikon, the foremost Norwegian encyclopedia. Does anyone have sources actually supporting the genus being named after HBS and not NTS?
OMHalck ( talk) 00:12, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The article refers to Saussure in some places and de Saussure in others. In order to make the naming consistent across the article, which should be preferred? -- Vaughan Pratt ( talk) 06:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Category:People from the Republic of Geneva (1541–1815) has been a subcategory of Category:People by canton in Switzerland for quite a while. Why exclude them from Swiss categories? Dimadick ( talk) 11:46, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
I am considering to try to build an infobox for this article. Any objections - or suggestions? About others, I looked a bit into inconsistent naming section above and into sources cited in the article, and almost all sources spell de Saussure, so I'll also add de everywhere it's still missing, as Vaughan Pratt suggested a decade ago (and nobody objected yet). Marjan Tomki SI ( talk) 05:10, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
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Perhaps the mineral sausserite is named after him. Dentren | Talk 14:15, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
In their standard work on the subject 'Glaciers & Glaciation' (Arnold, London 1998) Douglas Benn and David Evans claim that it was 'de Saussure' who in 1786 coined the term familiar to geography students for an ice-smoothed rock in a glaciated region. He saw in these rocks a resemblance to the wigs that were fashionable amongst gentry in his era and which were smoothed over with mutton fat hence 'moutonnee' so as to keep the hair in place. Anyone know anything more about this?
Geopersona (
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04:36, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I commented out the following section in the article, referring to the lead image.
I think that this is actually a statue of Michel-Gabriel Paccard the first person to climb Mont Blanc
Feel free to add the image back if you are able to definitively confirm/deny this claim. But such discussion belongs here and not in the actual article. Thanks! Plastikspork ( talk) 16:25, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
The article says: "The genus of high alpine plants Saussurea, some adapted to growing in some of the most extreme high alpine climates tolerated by any plant, is named after him."
The article on Saussurea says that the genus is named after his son Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure instead; this is supported by Store Norske Leksikon, the foremost Norwegian encyclopedia. Does anyone have sources actually supporting the genus being named after HBS and not NTS?
OMHalck ( talk) 00:12, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The article refers to Saussure in some places and de Saussure in others. In order to make the naming consistent across the article, which should be preferred? -- Vaughan Pratt ( talk) 06:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Category:People from the Republic of Geneva (1541–1815) has been a subcategory of Category:People by canton in Switzerland for quite a while. Why exclude them from Swiss categories? Dimadick ( talk) 11:46, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
I am considering to try to build an infobox for this article. Any objections - or suggestions? About others, I looked a bit into inconsistent naming section above and into sources cited in the article, and almost all sources spell de Saussure, so I'll also add de everywhere it's still missing, as Vaughan Pratt suggested a decade ago (and nobody objected yet). Marjan Tomki SI ( talk) 05:10, 9 November 2023 (UTC)