[PDF.83tk] The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

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 | #931604 in Books |  2002-08-03 |  2002-08-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.68 x5.50l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

 | ISBN13: 9780312420017 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Charming study|By John the Reader|Davy, Newton, Marconi, Babbage, Ben Franklin, John Bartram, Fitzroy, Admiral Beaufort with his storm scale, Flavio Gioja with the gimballed compass, John Harrison and his efforts to build a practical chronometer to give us Longitude, Maury and his paths across the seas ... what giants walked the earth then. And now we add the name of yet anothe|.com |British science writer Richard Hamblyn skillfully blends biography with scientific and cultural history to capture for modern readers the remarkable achievement of Luke Howard (1772-1864), the quiet Quaker whose classification of cloud types we still empl

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 extraordinary story of an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, and his groundbreaking work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures―clouds.

In December 1802, Luke Howard delivered a...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies   |  Richard Hamblyn. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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