The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

Richard Hamblyn

403 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)

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An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they are known to this day. By creating a language to ...

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