The Invention of Clouds
of Richard Hamblyn (Goodreads Author)
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The Invention of Clouds is the true story of Luke Howard, the amateur English meteorologist who in 1802 gave the clouds their names -- cumulus, cirrus, stratus. He immediately gained international fame, becoming a cult figure among artists and painters -- Goethe, Constable, and Coleridge revered him -- and legitimizing the science of meteorology. Part history of science, part cultural excavation, this is not only the biography of a man, but of a moment: the cultural birth of the modern scientific era.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 403 pages
- Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
- Publication Date August 20th 2001
- First Publication 01/01/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374177157
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science & Technology
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