HOWARD, Luke. Versuch einer Naturegeschichte und Physik der Wolken, von Lukas Howard...in Annalen der Physik, series I/51, band 3- (vi), 442pp, 6 plates. The Howard article appears on pp 1-42. Also included in the volume: Eine Probe von Lukas Howard's meteorologischen Monatsberichten”, pp 66-72
And with:Thomas Forster, pp 73-78 “Einigemrteorlogische Beobachtungen in Beziehung auf Lukas Howard's und De Luc's ideen.
Provenance: (a) Provinzial Gewebbschele zu Aachen, then (b) Deutsche Akademie der Luftfahrtforschung, and then (c) Wright Field Library (Dayton, Ohio), and finally (d) the Library of Congress. There are ownership rubber stamps on text block page edge at top and bottom, a stamped gilt title on the bottom of the spine, and two scant stamps on the contents page, and that's it. Very nice, tight, fresh copy. $350
It is interesting to note that this very important work wasn't really discussed in the German language for another dozen years, appearing in the Annalen der Physik (series I volume 51) in 1815. It is also interesting to see that--unlike the English original--there are no illustrations, which in some sense provide a scent of defeat in trying to display these groundbreaking classification ideas. The paper does present the names and descriptions of clouds (as you can see in the attached pic of the table of contents).
Also contains works by H. Davy (Ueber die Ursaxhe der Farben) and another dozen or so contributors.
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