Author: Christopher COOKEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Admiral Fitzroy: his facts and failures: a letter to the Marquis of Tweeddale
Author: Christopher COOKEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Admiral Fitzroy
Author: Christopher CookeBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
The Weather Experiment
Author: Peter MoorePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711275
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the weather. A century after the death of Newton, the laws that governed the heavens were entirely unknown, and weather forecasting was the stuff of folklore and superstition. Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment is the account of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements. It describes their travels and experiments, their breakthroughs and bankruptcies, with picaresque vigor. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay to the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris. And it captures the particular bent of mind—combining the Romantic love of Nature and the Enlightenment love of Reason—that allowed humanity to finally decipher the skies.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: Cons to Czytelnia
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description