The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future /
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of 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.