The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
Released: Jan 01, 2001
Publisher: Farrar. Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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Description:
Details the true story of a timid young Quaker and amateur meteorologist named Luke Howard who was hurled into the spotlight when he assigned poetic names to the clouds in December 1802, which became a landmark in natural history and meteorology and caused him to become immortalized in the works of the Romantics. 12,500 first printing.
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