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title: "The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Paperback – August 3, 2002"
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# The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Paperback – August 3, 2002

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## Customer Reviews

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    Beautiful account of early atmospheric science
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2020*

As a scientific researcher studying clouds, I really enjoyed this historical overview. It is beautifully written and gives a good sense of the times and characters that helped shape modern atmospheric science. Highly recommend to those both with and without technical background.

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    Charming study
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2012*

Davy, Newton, Marconi, Babbage, Ben Franklin, John Bartram, Fitzroy, Admiral Beaufort with his storm scale, Flavio Gioja with the gimballed compass, John Harrison and his efforts to build a practical chronometer to give us Longitude, Maury and his paths across the seas ... what giants walked the earth then. And now we add the name of yet another dissenter, Luke Howard whose brilliance gave us the nomenclature of clouds and Meteorology.Giants of the Royal Society, a great story, well written and researched and charmingly presented with illustrations that make clear why this research and conclusion on the weather is so important .. and not just to English either!

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    A Charming Book about a Man Everyone Should Know
  

*by D***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2001*

Richard Hamblyn does an immaculate job of painting the picture of the world of almost two hundred years ago, opening with the presentation room as it must have appeared to Luke Howard, the inventor of our current system of naming clouds.  He takes what has since come to be a dull and pedantic topic and re-invigorates it with the Victorian Zeitgeist, including quotes from Goethe, passages from Howard's diary, and the unfortunate results of political infighting among society-academics unrivalled since the age of Newton and Voltaire.  The book is also beautifully presented in a half-height format suitable for either the coffee table or the reference shelf.  Bravo!

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