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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Zustand: Aceptable. : En los albores del siglo XIX, un joven cuáquero aficionado a la meteorología llamado Luke Howard logró un avance científico que lo catapultó a la fama. Este libro narra la historia de cómo Howard definió las estructuras que hasta entonces se consideraban aleatorias e incognoscibles: las nubes. Hamblyn explora la cultura, la religión, la estética y la literatura de la época, mostrando cómo Howard influyó en figuras como Coleridge, Goethe y Shelley antes de caer en el olvido. EAN: 9780330391948 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia|Ciencias|Arte y Cultura Título: The Invention of Clouds Autor: Richard Hamblyn Editorial: Picador Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa dura. Artikel-Nr. Happ-2025-04-23-184e5034
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