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Last Name Howard

Given Name Luke

alt. Names L. H. ;

Marriage Mariabella Eliott (1769-1852)

Children several children including chemist and botanistJohn Eliot Howard (1807-1883), FRS

Year born 1772 in London

Year died 1864

Place of death Tottenham

Father's occupation Robert Howard, a manufacturer of iron and tin goods,

Relatives

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for L. H.: On the modifications of clouds & on the principles of their production, suspension & destruction, Philosophical Magazine (1803, 3rd edit., London 1865) ;

Patronage

Collaborators landscape painter Edward Kennion ; engraver of L. H.'s cloud drawings by ->Wilson Lowry in Philosophical Magazine, 1803 & by -> Thomas Milton 1808-11 ;

Techniques meteorological drawing, watercolour, painting, and copperplate engraving ;

Sample(s) https://books.google.ch/books?id=7BbPAAAAMAAJ&hl=de

Archival sources http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/pdf/article/2598 & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Howard

Published sources Sidney Lee in DNB 28 (1891): 51-52; Traugott Bautz in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 28: 827–832; Richard Hamblyn: The Invention of Clouds, London 2001; Jardine 2014; A.W. Slater in Notes & Records of the Royal Society 27(1972): 119-140 ;

other English chemist & meteorologist, pioneer of cloud classification, who illustrated his own works.

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