A New System of Meteorology, Designed for Schools and Private Students, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from A New System of Meteorology, Designed for Schools and Private Students, Vol. 1: Descriptive and Explanatory of All the Facts, and Demonstrative of All the Causes and Laws of Atmospheric Phenomena The fearful nature and awful grandeur of clouds, rain, hail, snow, whirlwinds, tornadoes, thunder and lightning, forcibly impressed me from my earliest childhood. Before attaining the age of four years, I inquired for their cause. My parents resolved these phenomena into the Ultimate Cause, God. Accepting this solution, I wished to know how he did it, and why he did it? Not receiving satisfactory answers to these questions, they became life problems to me. They had, and ever will have, such a fascination for me as to engross my entire attention when I am in their presence. While a lad of tender years, no cloud appeared above the horizon without my scrutiny as to its aspects, and noting the changes in its form and color. After night, no thunder cloud loomed up in the sky without my watching, while in sight, the play of the lightning in its folds, and studying its structure in its strata and convolutions. At a very early age, I distinguished the rain clouds from the "wind clouds, " and could point out clouds that were in a transition state from the "dry" to the "wet." I then also discovered that in every rain storm there are two disk clouds, an upper and a lower, and that a cloud column connects the two. I perceived that at times this connecting cloud had the shape of an hour-glass, in which sheet lightning only was seen playing to and fro, between the disks. All the facts I observed by day or night, I treasured up, with a vague idea that when I knew all the facts, I would not be long without knowing their causes too. I had an abiding faith in those whom the world esteemed learned men. I believed them high priests of Science, and thought that they held in their hands the key that unlocked all the mysteries of Nature. In short, I had a veneration for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.