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Moore, Peter, 1983-
Subjects
Meteorologists -- Biography.
Climatologists -- Biography.
Meteorology -- History -- 19th century.
Weather forecasting -- History -- 19th century.
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The weather experime...
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The weather experiment [electronic resource] : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.
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Moore, Peter, 1983-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Subjects
Meteorologists -- Biography.
Climatologists -- Biography.
Meteorology -- History -- 19th century.
Weather forecasting -- History -- 19th century.
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ISBN:
9780374711276 (electronic bk.)
0374711275 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Edition:
First American edition.
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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A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --
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