The Invention of Clouds

"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 story of an amateur meteorologist Luke Howard and his work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures - clouds."--BOOK JACKET.

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.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

Picador

Editions

3

Pages

256

ISBN

9780312420017

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