The Weather Experiment : the Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016Edition: First American paperback editionDescription: xvi, 395 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374536201
- 9780374536206
- 551.5092/2 23
- QC858.A2 M66 2016
- ASLI Choice Award
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-380) and index.
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.
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher.
ASLI Choice Award