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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... street cloud seen by Hayman Rooke from the window of his study . From Hayman Rooke , A Continuation of the Annual Meteoro logical Register , kept at Mansfield Woodhouse , 1802. By permission of the British Library : BL 08756.b.49 . ( 2 ...
... Street , ECI , up into the realms of scientific and Romantic celebrity . It is an hour to be remembered by historians and by day dreamers alike , for by the end of his lecture Luke Howard , by giving language to nature's most ineffable ...
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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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