Title:
The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
Format:
Books
Author:
Publication Date(s):
2015
ISBN:
9780865478091
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Description:
xvi, 395 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in 2015 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain"--Title-page verso.
Contents:
The weather experiment -- Dawn -- Seeing. Writing in the air ; Nature caught in the very act ; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold -- Morning -- Contesting. Detectives ; Trembling air, whirling winds ; Liquid lightning -- Midday -- Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies ; Beginnings ; Dangerous paths -- Afternoon -- Believing. Dazzling bright ; Endings ; Truth telling -- Dusk -- West winds -- Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.
Summary:
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher.
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