The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
Title:
The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
Author:
Moore, Peter, 1983-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Physical Description:
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary:
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --
Language:
English
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.
Genre:
ISBN:
9780865478091
Format :
Book
