Jean-Claude Delamétherie

Jean-Claude Delamétherie (also de La Métherie, de Lamétherie, 4 September 1743 – 1 July 1817) was a French naturalist, mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist. He edited Journal de physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts from 1785. He was elected member of Leopoldina in 1792. He was a supporter of the French Revolution, but opposed to the Jacobins, and was forced to leave Paris during the Reign of Terror, interrupting publication of the Journal de physique until 1797.

Numerous minerals were first systematically described by Delamétherie. In 1795, Delamétherie first described the Lherzolite (which he named after the site of its discovery, Étang de Lers in the Pyrenees).

Publications

• Principes de la philosophie naturelle, 1777, 2nd ed. 1787.
• Vues physiologiques sur l’organisation animale et végétale, 1780 (online).
• De la nature des êtres existans, 1805 (online).
• Théorie de la Terre, 1795, 2nd ed. 1797; German translation (1797) Theorie der Erde, 1797 (Bd. 1 online).
• Leçons de minéralogie, 1811.
• Leçons de géologie, 1816.

References

• Pietro Corsi: Lamarck. Genèse et enjeux du transformisme. 1770-1830, CNRS Édition, 2001, ISBN 2-271-05701-9.

External links

• de la Métherie's (1797-98) Theorie der Erde (3 vols.) - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library