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The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
- Title
- The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.
- Author
- Moore, Peter, 1983-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-7952 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7952
- ISBN
- 9780865478091
- 0865478090
- LCCN
- 2015011212
- OCLC
- 906171888
- Author
- Moore, Peter, 1983-
- Title
- The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7952