The Invention Of Clouds

How An Amateur Meteorologist Forged The Language Of The Skies

BY RICHARD HAMBLYN

Brief Description:
"As a young student in 1783, Luke Howard, a young Quaker Englishman, had watched ominous clouds from his classroom window that were the result of recent volcanic eruptions that not only altered the appearance of the skies, but temporarily changed the climate around the world. Toward the end of 1802, as the Romantic era loomed, he read his seminal treatise on meteorology, `On the Modifications of Clouds,' to an audience of friends and interested associates in a small, dank basement in the Plough Court Laboratory. The presentation was the first time the scientific names of clouds were coined, explained and pronounced to the public."-Publishers Weekly

St. Martins 2002 292 PP. Paper

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