Luke Howard's Influence on Art and Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century*

Thornes, John E.

doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1984.tb06787.x

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“…The aim was to understand nature as far as possible by use of artistic images. Advances in the scientific study of the atmosphere, led by the British naturalist Luke Howard (1772-1829), began to permeate artistic thinking in the early nineteenth century (Thornes, 1984). His Essays on the Modifications of Clouds dealt with a system of analysis for clouds, and suggested Latin nomenclature for types and subtypes.…”

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