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Luke Howard

English meteorologist

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In Earth sciences: Understanding of clouds, fog, and dew
…1803 by the English meteorologist Luke Howard. Howard’s effort was not simply taxonomic; he recognized that clouds reflect in their shapes and changing forms “the general causes which effect all the variations of the atmosphere.”
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