British journalist Gavin Praetor-Pinney, founder and permanent chairman of the Society of Cloud Lovers, which brings together artists, philosophers and amateur meteorologists around the world, knows everything about this phenomenon.
British journalist Gavin Praetor-Pinney, founder and permanent chairman of the Society of Cloud Lovers, which brings together artists, philosophers and amateur meteorologists around the world, knows everything about this phenomenon. Where clouds come from, how much they weigh, what forms they can take, what weather they portend, and also what they thought about clouds in antiquity and what they know about them today — the author of «Entertaining Cloud Science» talks about all this not only competently, but also poetically . The charming, witty and informative book by Praetor-Pinney will allow the reader to see new facets of the familiar and force him to reconsider the established opinion, according to which staring at the sky is a deliberately meaningless and unpromising occupation.
Gayatri, 392 p.