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JoeDaDude•about 24 hours ago

The article states that "Lamarck, on the other hand, used French terms" to describe the clouds unlike Luke Howard whose Latin names such as cumulus, nimbus, cirrus, etc., which stuck and are still with us.

What were Lamarck's names for the clouds?

rramadass•about 18 hours ago

> What were Lamarck's names for the clouds?

The article itself mentions those. They are informal and descriptive;

He began to watch more carefully, and in this way, he became the first person to classify the clouds, producing a veritable cloud atlas for his first presentation to the Academy of Sciences in 1777. He divided clouds into five types: (1) veiled (en voile), (2) gathered (attroupés), (3) dappled (pommelés), (4) sweeping (en balayures), and (5) grouped (groupé).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud#History_of_cloud_science says his nomenclature included 12 categories of clouds. Gemini AI gives you all their names.

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