The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesMacmillan, 3. aug. 2002 - 292 sider Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize |
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... Royal - Society of London , 1667. page 95 9. An imaginary view of the French invasion of England , c . 1804 . Hulton Getty . page 108 10 , 11. Cirrus and cumulus . From Luke Howard , On the Modifica tions of Clouds , 1804. By permission ...
... Royal Meteorological Society . page 181 20. The original Beaufort Scale of 1806. Crown Copyright . page 192 21. The Smeaton - Rouse Scale of 1759. page 193 22. The second Beaufort Scale . page 197 23. The Beaufort Scale today . page 202 ...
... Royal Society ( and of course for the excellent three - course dinner that was served to them afterwards in the dining room ) . They would have been in no mood to have found themselves delayed by the hesitations of an unknown amateur ...
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The Theatre of Science | 4 |
A Brief History of Clouds | 15 |
The Cloud Messenger | 33 |
Scenes from Childhood | 40 |
The Askesian Society | 62 |
Other Classifications | 90 |
Publication | 112 |
Growing Influence | 141 |
The Beaufort Scale | 184 |
Goethe and Constable | 204 |
The International Year of Clouds | 231 |
Afterlife | 249 |
Cloud Species and Varieties | 255 |
Notes | 259 |
Acknowledgements | 283 |
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