British weather and the climate of enlightenment
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.