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Weather Experiment

The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

Szerző: Peter Moore
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Vintage Publishing
Elérhetőség: 50 % esély
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This is Book of the Week on Radio 4. "Gripping." (The Times). "Exhilarating." (Sunday Times). In 186...

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Szerző
Peter Moore
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2016
oldal
432
EAN
9780099581673
ISBN
0099581671
Enbook ID
09510983
Kiadó
Vintage Publishing
Súly
304
Méretek
196 x 131 x 27

Teljes leírás

This is Book of the Week on Radio 4. "Gripping." (The Times). "Exhilarating." (Sunday Times). In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's great wrath, nineteenth-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. Fractious debates raged over decades between scientists from London to Galway, Paris to New York. Explaining the atmosphere was one thing, but predicting what it was going to do seemed a step too far. In 1854, when a politician suggested to the Commons that Londoners might soon know the weather twenty-four hours in advance, the House roared with laughter. Peter Moore's exhilarating account navigates treacherous seas, rough winds and uncovers the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding.

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