The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
Moore, Peter, 1983-2016
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In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's great wrath, 19th-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment a generation of mavericks set out to explain the secrets of the atmosphere and learned to predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the first to classify the clouds, Francis Beaufort who quantified the winds, James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon, Samuel Morse whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings, and FitzRoy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer and founder of the Met Office. Reputations were built and shattered. Peter Moore's account navigates treacherous seas, rough winds and uncovers the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding.
Main title:
Author:
Moore, Peter, 1983-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2016.
Collation:
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099581673 (pbk)
Dewey class:
551.630922
Language:
English
BRN:
371067