The Invention of Clouds
Subtitle: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
Publisher: Picador
Published: August 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312420017
Subjects: Meteorology; Weather; History; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Science; Nature/Ecology; Meteorologists; Europe - Great Britain - General; Howard, Luke; Nature / Weather; Clouds; 19th century; Biography; England
First sentence: IT MIGHT SEEM DIFFICULT to imagine now, in this era of cool detachment, but in the opening years of the nineteenth century people cheered loudly at lectures.