The Weather Experiment by P Moore

[bikedaft]

a post(er) on here put me on to it, i think - thanks!

sounds pretty dry - history of trying to forecast the weather.

but well written/interesting read. plenty of interesting characters turn up eg Constable, Beaufort, Fitzroy, Morse etc.

captures the excitement of the advancement of science in the 1800's

 

[Hydrozoan]

Thanks. I guess you've probably read Richard Hamblyn's 'The Invention of Clouds', a biography of Luke Howard, the Quaker who devised the modern system of cloud nomenclature early in the C19th IIRC. If not, worth a read.

 

[bikedaft]

no, i've not read that one - thanks

it does look good

 

[nigelmercier]

a post(er) on here put me on to it, i think - thanks!

Just my sort of book, thank you. Ordered on Amazon.