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

Name: Invention of Clouds How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
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ISBN: 9780312420017

ISBN-10: 0312420013

ISBN-13: 9780312420017

Edition: 2002

Authors: Richard Hamblyn

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The Invention of Clouds tells the extraordinary story of an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, and his groundbreaking work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures—clouds. In December 1802, Luke Howard delivered a lecture that was to be a defining point in natural history and meteorology. He named the clouds, classifying them in terms that remain familiar to this day: cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus. This new and precise nomenclature sparked worldwide interest and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Richard Hamblyn was born in 1965 & is a graduate of the universities of Essex & Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the early history of geology in Britain. He lives & works in London.



List of Illustrations


Prologue: The Useless Pursuit of Shadows



The Theatre of Science



A Brief History of Clouds



The Cloud Messenger



Scenes from Childhood



The Askesian Society



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Publication



Growing Influence



Fame



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