عنوان

British weather and the climate of enlightenment /

(Number (ISBN

0226302059 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780226302058 (cloth : alk. paper)

Number

b533592

Title Proper

British weather and the climate of enlightenment /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jan Golinski

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 284 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index

Text of Note

Experiencing the weather in 1703 -- The "exquisite atmography" and its author -- The atmosphere and the earth -- Clouds in the head -- Public weather and the culture of enlightenment -- The great storm in public debate -- Providence and the British climate -- Conversation and weather lore -- Recording and forecasting -- The discipline of the diary -- The calendar and the seasons -- Forecasting by the heavens -- Barometers of enlightenment -- The genealogy of weather instruments -- The instrument trade and consumers -- Interpreting the "oraculous glasses" -- Sensibility and climatic pathology -- The hippocratic revival -- Aerial sensitivity and social change -- The politics of atmospheric reform -- Climate and civilization -- The enlightenment debate on climate -- Medicine and the colonial situation -- America: climate and destiny -- Conclusion: the science of weather

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Climatology

Meteorology-- Great Britain-- History

Weather

Great Britain, Climate

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Number

Edition

Class number

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Book number

Book number

Golinski, Jan

Date of Transaction

20070904153709.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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