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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

Name: The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
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SKU: 9780374536206
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Contributors:

Peter Moore

Publisher:

Fsg Adult

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

History, Earth Sciences, Science & Technology

Book Topic:

Meteorology & Climatology

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Release Date:

2016-06-21

ISBN 13:

9780374536206

Weight:

0.7 lbs

Size:

8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

416

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By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the weather. A century after the death of Newton, the laws that governed the heavens were entirely unknown, and weather forecasting was the stuff of folklore and superstition.

Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment is the account of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements. It describes their travels and experiments, their breakthroughs and bankruptcies, with picaresque vigor. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay to the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris. And it captures the particular bent of mind--combining the Romantic love of Nature and the Enlightenment love of Reason--that allowed humanity to finally decipher the skies.

About the Author
Peter Moore was born in Staffordshire in 1983. He is the author of Damn His Blood: A True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution. He is a visiting lecturer at City University, where he teaches nonfiction writing, and was recently the writer in residence at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, Wales.

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