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Author:

Moore, Peter, 1983- author.

Title:

The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.

Edition:

First American paperback edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus & Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 395 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm

Subject:

Meteorologists--Biography.
Climatologists--Biography.
Meteorology--History--19th century.
Weather forecasting--History--19th century.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-380) and index.

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.

Summary:

A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780374536206
0374536201

OCLC:

(OCoLC)918995227

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)