Resumen de Il Contributo di Lamarck alla fondazione della meteorologia moderna
Jean Baptiste Lamarck was the first scientist to deal thoroughly with meteorology and weather forecasts to grant it dignity of science that was lately granted to meteorology, at the end of the twentieth century.
The present paper examines Lamarck's contribution, still of great topical interest for meteorology research today, concerning topics such as: the specification of the causes of atmospheric phenomena, the acquisition of experimental data, the issue of weather forecasts in the probabilistic form, their social utility, ways of communication and validation.
In this study the author addresses the relevance of Lamarck's contributions considering them as a fundamental step in the history of meteorology.
