British weather and the climate of enlightenment

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מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Golinski, Jan
מחבר תאגידי: ebrary, Inc
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.