Antoine Lavoisier:

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to society.

— Antoine Lavoisier Early Modern

Father of modern chemistry

Context

From his meteorological research

Date / Period

1770s

Source

https://www.jstor.org/stable/301666

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