Author: Patrick MURPHY (Meteorologist.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Meteorology considered in its connexion with astronomy, climate, and the geographical distribution of animals and plants, equally as with the seasons and changes of the weather
Author: Patrick MURPHY (Meteorologist.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Meteorology
Author: Patrick Murphy
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Publisher:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Predicting the Weather
Author: Katharine Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226019705
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226019705
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.
Report of the Meteorological Council
Additions Made to the Library of Congress, Since the First Day of December, 1851
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Monthly Review
The Monthly review. New and improved ser. New and improved ser
Monthly Review
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
A Bibliography, Guide, and Index to Climate
Author: Alexander Ramsay
Publisher:
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description