British weather and the climate of enlightenment /

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Golinski, Jan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1703-1800.
Meteorology > Great Britain > History.
Weather.
Climatology.
Weather
Météorologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Temps (Météorologie)
weather.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatology
Meteorology
Meteorologische Beobachtung
Great Britain > Climate.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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