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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... original drawing . From Luke Howard , On the Modifications of Clouds , 1804. By per mission of the British Library : BL 1393.k.16 . ( 1 . ) . page 38 2. The street cloud seen by Hayman Rooke from the window of his study . From Hayman ...
... 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 24. John Constable , Study of Clouds at ...
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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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