British weather and the climate of enlightenment
Golinski, Jan.
British weather and the climate of enlightenment [electronic resource] / Jan Golinski. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xv, 284 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Meteorology--History.--Great Britain
Weather.
Climatology.
Great Britain--Climate.
Electronic books.
QC989.G69 / G66 2007eb
551.50941/09033
British weather and the climate of enlightenment [electronic resource] / Jan Golinski. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xv, 284 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Meteorology--History.--Great Britain
Weather.
Climatology.
Great Britain--Climate.
Electronic books.
QC989.G69 / G66 2007eb
551.50941/09033