Intimate Universality : Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate.
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
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780881353679
- 0881353671
- 551.509 22
- QC855 .I58 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
NCAR Library Foothills Lab | QC855 .I58 2006 | 1 | Available | 50583020010363 |
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.