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British weather and the climate of enlightenment
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Title
British weather and the climate of enlightenment / Jan Golinski.
ISBN
9780226302058 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226302059 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 27, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
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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