The Weather Experiment; The Pioneers who sought to see the Future.

Peter Moore's ' The Weather Experiment ' navigates treacherous seas and rough winds to uncover the obsession that drove men to great invention and greater understanding. The boards, text block and dust jacket are all square ,tight and clean. Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only. This book is photographed as proof against in-transit damage.

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In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today.

In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's wrath, nineteenth-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma. Buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of mavericks set out to decipher the secrets of the atmosphere and predict the future. Among them were Luke Howard, the first to classify clouds; Francis Beaufort, who quantified the winds; James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon; Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings; and FitzRoy himself, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the U.K.'s national weather service.

Reputations were built and shattered. Fractious debates raged over decades between scientists from London and Galway, Paris and New York. Explaining the atmosphere was one thing, but predicting what it was going to do seemed a step too far. In 1854, when a politician suggested to the Commons that Londoners might soon know the weather twenty-four hours in advance, the House roared with laughter.

Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment navigates treacherous seas and rough winds to uncover the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding.

Product Info

ISBN: 0865478090

ISBN-13: 9780865478091

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year: 2015

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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