num_pages: 256
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. 12500 first printing.
language: English
title: The Invention of Clouds
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux