Seven Lectures on Meteorology
Luke Howard (1772–1864) was a pharmacist and businessman, but is most famous for his contributions to meteorology. He classified clouds by their appearance and gave them their modern names of cumulus, cirrus, nimbus and stratus. He was educated at a Quaker school in Oxfordshire, then trained as a ph...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139135467 |