The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize |
Contents
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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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of ... Richard Hamblyn No preview available - 2001 |
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