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050	1	4	_aQC995 _b.L62 2012
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100	1		_aLockett, Jerry.
245	1	4	_aThe Discovery of Weather : _bStephen Saxby, the Tumultuous Birth of Weather Forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869.
264			_aHalifax, N.S. : _bFormac Pub., _cc2012.
300			_a272 p. : _bill., ports. ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_apt. 1. Mr. Saxby's prediction -- The calm before the storm -- A storm of ideas -- Storm warnings -- Barking at the moon -- pt. 2. The storm -- Deluge -- Landfall -- Storm surge -- Aftermath -- Why Saxby still matters.
520			_aIn the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers and other charlatans for public acceptance. One of the voices in this struggle was Stephen Saxby, a British naval instructor who thought he had found a sure-fire way of forecasting storms. He championed a popular but somewhat eccentric theory that weather disturbances are linked to stages in the moon's orbit of the earth. In this book, the author traces the early days of weather forecasting, the background to Saxby's prediction, and the drama of the storm itself.
530			_aIssued also in electronic formats.
586			_aASLI Choice Award
600	1	0	_aSaxby, Stephen, _d1804-1883.
600	1	6	_aSaxby, Stephen, _d1804-1883.
648		7	_a1800-1899 _2fast
650		0	_aWeather forecasting _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aMeteorologists _zEngland _vBiography.
650		0	_aWeather forecasting _zEngland _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWindstorms _zAtlantic Coast (U.S.) _xForecasting _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWindstorms _zAtlantic Coast (Canada) _xForecasting _xHistory _y19th century.
651		7	_aCanada _zAtlantic Coast. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01240705
651		7	_aEngland. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01219920
651		7	_aUnited States _zAtlantic Coast. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01240719
655		7	_aBiographies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655		7	_aBiography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423686
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _92285
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft
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