| Description |
xvi, 395 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Content type |
text txt rdacontent |
| Format |
volume nc rdacarrier |
| Summary |
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
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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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780865478091 |
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0865478090 |
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