At Brain Pickings, Maria Popova muses on Richard Hamblyn’s The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies, which details the true story of Luke Howard, a 19th century English meteorologist whose work was admired by German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Aside from chronicling the unlikely friendship between a scientist and the poet, “How Howard developed his sensitive soul and how it sprouted his trailblazing scientific contribution is what Hamblyn explores [in this] beautifully written, rigorously researched, wholly fascinating [book],” Popova writes.
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