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The Invention of Clouds
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The Invention of Clouds (2001) (edit title/settings)

How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

by Richard Hamblyn (Author) (edit contributors)

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The history of a man who transformed the relationship between the world and its overarching sky.n the early nineteenth century a shy young Quaker, Luke Howard, conducted pioneering work to understand and define what had previously seemed random and unknowable structures: clouds. His scientific... read more

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IT MIGHT SEEM DIFFICULT to imagine now, in this era of cool detachment, but in the opening years of the nineteenth century people cheered loudly at lectures.

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  1. Richard Hamblyn (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Country: England
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0330391941
Page Count: 304

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