Piddington and the “Law of Storms”

We remember Henry Piddington, a 19th century British official in colonial India, mostly as the man who coined the word “cyclone” to describe large, rotating tropical storm systems. The former sea captain introduced the word in his 1884 landmark book “The Sailor's Horn Book for the Law of Storms.”

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