| Edition |
First American edition |
| Phys Descr |
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
BPL: Given in the memory of Chris Carlisle. |
| 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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Presents the contributions to the modern science of meteorology made by Luke Howard, the first to classify clouds; Sir Francis Beaufort, who quantified the winds; James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon; Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings; and Admiral Robert Fitzroy, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the UK's national weather service |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index |
| 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 |
| Subject |
Meteorologists -- Biography
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Climatologists -- Biography
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Meteorology -- History -- 19th century
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Weather forecasting -- History -- 19th century
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| OCLC # |
906171888 |
| ISBN # |
9780865478091 |
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0865478090 |
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