The Invention of Clouds
Publisher: Picador
Published: October 26, 2001
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780330391948
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Meteorology; Popular science; Biography: historical
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.