Download PDF by Richard Hamblyn: Clouds: Nature and Culture (Earth)

By Richard Hamblyn

ISBN-10: 1780237235

ISBN-13: 9781780237237

Clouds were items of pleasure and fascination all through human background; their fleeting beauty and never-ending style have encouraged scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds and the ever-changing styles they bring have lengthy symbolized the restlessness and unpredictability of nature. existence with no clouds isn't really bodily attainable – along their rain-bearing functionality, clouds act as a finely tuned planetary thermostat – but additionally it'd be mentally and spiritually barren, disadvantaged of the inspiring, life-affirming thought-bubbles that flow consistently overhead: ‘the final artwork gallery above’, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.

Richard Hamblyn explores the remarkable presence of clouds in literature and the humanities (including song and sculpture) whereas outlining their turning out to be clinical importance within the context of weather switch. The publication covers the historical past, technological know-how and artwork of clouds, together with the debatable background of cloud amendment. the entire significant cloud varieties are mentioned and illustrated, together with clouds on different planets, in addition to the expanding variety of man-made clouds that fill our changeable skies. finished but compact, cogent and fantastically illustrated, this is often the last word consultant to clouds: from Hamlet’s ‘cloud that’s virtually match of a camel’ to the realm of cloud computing today.

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