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The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore

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Author:
Moore, Peter 1983-  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 395 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Date:
2015
19th century
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.
Topic:
Meteorologists  Search this
Climatologists  Search this
Meteorology--History  Search this
Weather forecasting--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1056288