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Huler, Scott.
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Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857.
Beaufort scale.
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Defining the wind : ...
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Defining the wind : the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry / Scott Huler.
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Huler, Scott.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.
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Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857.
Beaufort scale.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003025973.html
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1400048842 (hardcover)
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290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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1st ed.
Contents:
Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the dictionary, and how Sir Francis Beaufort slept with his sister -- Taking the measure of the wind: the fabulous beaufortometer -- A picture of the wind: poetry, the shipping forecast, and the search for the North Shields observer -- Observation, a panegyric: on the Beaufort moment.
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