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The Invention Of Clouds Book

The Invention Of Clouds
The Invention Of Clouds, Winner of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> 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. <i>The Invention of Clouds</i> tells the extr, The Invention Of Clouds has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • The Invention Of Clouds
  • Written by author Richard Hamblyn
  • Published by Picador, August 2002
  • 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 extr
  • In 1802, Luke Howard, an amateur meteorologist, delivered a lecture in which he presented a nomenclature to classify clouds. Still in use today, this nomenclature launched the science of meterology (and also captured the imaginations of some of the 19th c
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Prologue: The Useless Pursuit of Shadows3
Ch. 1The Theater of Science7
Ch. 2A Brief History of Clouds21
Ch. 3The Cloud Messenger47
Ch. 4Scenes from Childhood57
Ch. 5The Askesian Society89
Ch. 6Other Classifications123
Ch. 7Publication153
Ch. 8Growing Influence193
Ch. 9Fame229
Ch. 10The Beaufort Scale253
Ch. 11Goethe and Constable281
Ch. 12The International Year of Clouds321
Epilogue: Afterlife347
AppCloud Species and Varieties355
Notes359
Acknowledgments389
Index391


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