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Clement Wragge is sometimes remembered as the colourful and combative Australasian metereorologist whose use of people’s names to nickname cyclones and storms in the 1890s caught on around the world. Described at the hights of his career as Australia’s most famous man and also derivisely, as “”””The Rain God””, Ïnclement”” Wragge set standards for a national weather service, pioneered long-range forecasting, and campaigned against massive land-clearing, fearing this assault on nature was reducing rainfall. Years later, after reinventing himself in New Zealand as travelling science educator, he was feted by the likes of Sir Conan Doyle. This is the first full biography of Clement Wragge’s rebellious and adventurous life – the srange story of a sef-taught metereologist from England’s industrial Midlands, a 19th century scientist with 21st century anxieties. He trusted in physics perfectied by a Creator and held profound fears for humanity, yet had irrespressible faith in human ingenuity to overcome.
First edition 2023, cardcover, 458pages, BW`photos, Index
