British weather and the climate of enlightenment
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a British weather and the climate of enlightenment |h [electronic resource] / |c Jan Golinski. |
| 260 | |a Chicago : |b University of Chicago Press, |c 2007. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 284 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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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| 650 | 0 | |a Meteorology |z Great Britain |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Weather. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatology. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Climate. | |
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