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Hide and Seek at midday
"You should catch us before the eagle passes the tree."
While passing the tree,
the eagle became a rabbit,
and became a hat.
Billions of water drops met the cold air,
constantly changing the scene.
"It's like a whirlpool in a puddle."
A boy was fascinated by the movement beyond the windows.
The sunlight is reflected by clouds,
which is why they are white.
The average lifespan of clouds is 10 minutes
such an ephemeral thing.
The boy fell in love with the floating clouds.
His strict father forced him
to serve an apprenticeship with a pharmacist for six years.
"When traces of them were seen after they were scattered,
I tried to look at the sky one more minute after sunset."
At age 23, he opened a pharmacy and earned his living.
Finally, he devoted himself to the work that he had dreamed of.
After seven years, in December 1802, in an old building in London
a 30-year-old amateur scientist had a bundle of manuscripts.
"My talk this evening concerns itself with what may strike some as
an uncharacteristically impractical subject."
Impractical subject is
"On the Modification of Clouds."
He named all different forms of water drops in the air.
Cirrus means a "tuft or plant filament" in Latin.
Stratus means "spread out."
Cumulus means a "pile."
And
"All clouds can be explained by the three basic cloud families."
Reflecting the nature
Language of science
The names of clouds
The names of clouds all over Europe
"Clouds often seen in the arctic ocean are
large and similar to Cirrostratus clouds."
- William Scoresby, an English explorer(1810)
A new world was delivered correctly.
Explorers could read clouds.
Scholars could read clouds.
Poets could read clouds.
Painters could read clouds.
People could read clouds.
The understanding of nature
produced a fertile imagination.
And Goethe wrote a poem in gratitude.
"Therefore my winged song thanks the man who distinguished cloud from cloud."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1820)
The man, Luke Howard(1772-1864)
"I want the names of clouds to be known more widely than my name."