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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the contributions to the modern science of meteorology made by Luke Howard, the first to classify clouds; Sir 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 Admiral Robert Fitzroy, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the UK's national weather service....
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