JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Source: ETH-Bibliothek http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/5616752
It seems to me that the winds were named long before clouds were were–in many ways that is understandable given the nature of winds and clouds, and also given the burden of understandable “proof” in that the winds were categorized for centuries before clouds received their first scientific treatment in the early 19th century. (See this earlier post on Luke Howard, “On Naming Clouds But Not Illustrating Them, 1815” https://historyofideasblog.com/books/2012/01/on-naming-clouds-and-not-illustrating-them-1815.html.)
The chart above,”De ventis” is a gorgeous and half-hypnotic anemographic chart of wind roses, which was an engraved illustration from Francesco Barozzi’s (1537-1604). Cosmographia in quatuor libros distributa summo ordine, miraque facilitate ac brevitate ad magnam Ptolomaei mathematicam constructionem, ad universamque astrologiam instituens… and published in Venice in 1598. 1598
From the same source–which was a general work on cosmography but included exercises in perspective as well as extended discussions of terrestrial interest–comes this excellent chart of the wind names:
