The 17th-century English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne was a prolific contributor of novel words to the English language, and an intellectual who had a good-humored skepticism.
Peter Moore’s new book tells the story of the meteorologists who decoded the skies with observation and measurement, and then helped society read the codes, too.
So far, no buyer has emerged for the full 7,600-volume, 5.4-million-page set, which is priced at $500,000. But several dozen individual volumes have been sold.
