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The Weather Experiment: the Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
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The Weather Experiment: the Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future Hardcover - 2015

by Moore, Peter

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First Edition, First Printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket; small remainder mark to top edge.. xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), color maps; 24 cm. "A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible." // 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.
Used - Fine in fine jacket; small remainder mark to top edge.
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