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01884aam a2200349Ki 4500 001 78BD26CEC93011E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 150820s2016 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780374536206 020 $a 0374536201 035 $a (OCoLC)918995227 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UPZ $d OCLCO $d UIB $d SILO 050 4 $a QC858.A2 $b M66 2016 082 04 $a 551.5092/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Moore, Peter, $d 1983- $e author. 245 14 $a The weather experiment : $b the pioneers who sought to see the future / $c Peter Moore. 250 $a First American paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $c 2016. 300 $a xvi, 395 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-380) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Meteorologists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Climatologists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Meteorology $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Weather forecasting $x History $y 19th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006100956.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=78BD26CEC93011E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search