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Author Golinski, Jan.

Title British weather and the climate of enlightenment [electronic resource] / Jan Golinski.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Description xv, 284 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Meteorology -- Great Britain -- History.
Weather.
Climatology.
Great Britain -- Climate.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226302058 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226302059 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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