The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesMacmillan, 3 авг. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 292 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize |
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... natural modesty as well as trepida tion . He could never of course have imagined that the evening was to make him famous , and as he cleared his throat and stared at the title of his lecture , ' On the Modifications of Clouds ' , there ...
... natural philosophy : ' nephology ' , perhaps , the science of the clouds - a term which did not in fact come into use until the end of the nineteenth century . Or if things went wrong that evening , as he suspected they might , the ...
... nature's most ineffable and prodigal forms , had squared an ancient and anxiogenic circle . For by the end of his lecture Luke Howard had named the clouds . CHAPTER ONE The Theatre of Science Science , illuminating ray The Useless ...
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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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