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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2012
      November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139135467
      9781108040167
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135467
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 230 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Atmospheric Science and Meteorology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, History of Science, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Atmospheric Science and Meteorology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, History of Science, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    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 pharmacist, but was fascinated by weather throughout his life, and developed into a keen amateur meteorologist. He wrote several important texts on the subject including The Climate of London, an early study in urban climatology, and On the Modification of Clouds (both also reissued in this series). Published in 1837, Seven Lectures on Meteorology covers the components of the atmosphere, seasonal variation in winds and temperature, the use of barometers, cloud structure, and visual phenomena such as rainbows and the Aurora Borealis. This reissue also includes Howard's short 1842 book which details selected British weather data from 1824 to 1841.

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