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Hamblyn, Richard

 
9780330391948: The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
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ISBN 10: 0330391941 ISBN 13: 9780330391948
Editorial: Picador, 2001

Sinopsis

A tantalizing mixture of biography, history, and science. The Invention of Clouds takes as its focus a specific scientific advance of the early nineteenth century, but it also addresses other issues of the day, such as culture, religion, aesthetics, literature etc. At the time such things weren't divided into separate disciplines, a mentality that is reflected by the book itself. It tells the story of a shy young Quaker, Luke Howard, and his pioneering work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures - clouds. Howard was catapulted to fame in December 1802 when he named the clouds, a defining point in natural history and meteorology. His poetic names and groundbreaking work made him internationally famous. He became a cult figure for Romantics like Shelley and Goethe. His work is still the basis of modern meteorology, but he himself has been overlooked. In this book Hamblyn means to restore both him, his cultural context and the science he loved, to life.

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Richard Hamblyn was born in 1965 and is a graduate of the universities of Essex and of Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the early history of geology in Britain. He lives and works in London.

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Editorial
Picador
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0330391941
ISBN 13 
9780330391948
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
304
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