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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... young amateur meteorologist untied a bundle of handwritten pages , carefully bal anced a roll of watercolour drawings beside his chair , and prepared himself to speak on a subject curiously at odds with his subterranean surroundings ...
... young Cornishman Humphry Davy , for example , whom he had recently met and whose rising fame as a scientific speaker told loudly of the worldly rewards of masculine looks and self - assurance . But Howard , whose mild hazel eyes peered ...
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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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