The Way That Bentley Writes About His Work Is Not Super Scientific

We don't know for sure why so few scientists even acknowledge what he was doing. We've talked before about the scientific establishment being really reluctant to people they perceived as amateurs. But at this point in history, most people are amateurs and it seemed kind of strange that there wasn't a lot of engagement from that quarter. It could have been a matter of his outsider status, like i just said, nobody knew who this farmer from vermont was or how or why he had started studying meteorology with no formal schooling. Biographer duncan blanchard theorized that it could also have been the way that bentley wrote about his work was not always really scientific in its tone.