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The Invention of Clouds

The Invention of Clouds How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

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Details the true story of a timid young Quaker and amateur meteorologist named Luke Howard who was hurled into the spotlight when he assigned poetic names to the clouds in December 1802, which became a landmark in natural history and meteorology and caused him to become immortalized in the works of the Romantics. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780312420017
Publisher: Picador
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 551.576
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 292
Weight: 386g
Height: 217mm
Width: 141mm
Spine width: 18mm

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