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Intimate universality : local and global themes in the history of weather and climate / James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, editors.

Contributor(s): Series: Science-history studies on atmospheres ; v. 1.Publisher: Sagamore Beach, MA : Science History Publications/USA, 2006Description: xx, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780881353679
  • 0881353671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Intimate universality.DDC classification:
  • 551.509 22
LOC classification:
  • QC855 .I58 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intimate climates, from skins to streets, soirees to societies / Vladimir Jankovic -- A shift of view : meteorology in John Herschel's terrestrial physics / Gregory A. Good -- Mapping meteorology / Katharine Anderson -- Fog, dust and rising air : understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century / Richard Staley -- Scaling down : the "Austrian" climate between empire and republic / Deborah R. Coen -- Teaching the weather cadet generation : aviation, pedagogy and aspirations to a universal meteorology in America, 1920-1950 / Roger Turner -- The struggle over airways in the Americas, 1919-1945 : atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism / Gregory T. Cushman -- Global climate change and human agency : inadvertent influence and "Archimedian" interventions / James Rodger Fleming.
Summary: Eight essays from a summer 2004 meeting of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, held in Kloster Polling, Upper Bavaria, launch a new series on the history of the science of atmospheres. The topics include meteorology in John Herschel's (1792-1871) terrestrial physics; understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century; and atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism in the Americas 1919-45. All but one of the contributing historians of science are from the US. Science History Publications USA is a division of Watson Publishing International.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intimate climates, from skins to streets, soirees to societies / Vladimir Jankovic -- A shift of view : meteorology in John Herschel's terrestrial physics / Gregory A. Good -- Mapping meteorology / Katharine Anderson -- Fog, dust and rising air : understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century / Richard Staley -- Scaling down : the "Austrian" climate between empire and republic / Deborah R. Coen -- Teaching the weather cadet generation : aviation, pedagogy and aspirations to a universal meteorology in America, 1920-1950 / Roger Turner -- The struggle over airways in the Americas, 1919-1945 : atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism / Gregory T. Cushman -- Global climate change and human agency : inadvertent influence and "Archimedian" interventions / James Rodger Fleming.

Eight essays from a summer 2004 meeting of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, held in Kloster Polling, Upper Bavaria, launch a new series on the history of the science of atmospheres. The topics include meteorology in John Herschel's (1792-1871) terrestrial physics; understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century; and atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism in the Americas 1919-45. All but one of the contributing historians of science are from the US. Science History Publications USA is a division of Watson Publishing International.

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