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

  • Moore, Peter, 1983-
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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Description

A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2015]

Physical description

xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations (portraits, maps) ; 24 cm

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Edition

First American edition.

Bibliographic information

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AKM /MOO
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780865478091
  • 0865478090