Luke Howard

In fact, a description of the very first report of the UHI by Luke Howard in 1820 says:

Letter to NAS « Climate Audit 2006

As an aside, the UHI was first noticed by an Englishman, Luke Howard.

Road Map « Climate Audit 2005

Luke Howard graduated from a fine college and went to a large city to practice his profession.

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

A few months later, on Christmas night, Luke Howard lay drunk on the bar-room floor.

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

Outwardly different from Ruskin's and yet spiritually comparable, is the contribution made by his older contemporary, Luke Howard, to the foundation of a science of nature based on intuition.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

They are Luke Howard (1772-1864) and John Ruskin (1819-1900), both true readers in the book of nature.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

"Luke Howard, you're not the man you once were, and I want you to leave here at once."

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

Luke Howard, a chemist by profession, knew well how to value the results of scientific knowledge above traditional folk-knowledge.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

The next ambitious attempt to explain the phenomena of aqueous meteors was made by Luke Howard, in his remarkable paper on clouds, published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1803 -- the paper in which the names cirrus, cumulus, stratus, etc., afterwards so universally adopted, were first proposed.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

In order to understand the indications of the weather, they studied the clouds according to the classification of Luke Howard.

Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850