Title & Author:

Intimate universality : local and global themes in the history of weather and climate / James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Janković, and Deborah R. Coen, editors.

Publication:

Sagamore Beach, MA : Science History Publications/USA, 2006.

Description:

xx, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Science-history studies on atmospheres ; v. 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intimate climates, from skins to streets, soirées to societies / Vladimir Jankovic -- A shift of view : meteorology in John Herschel's terrestrial physics / Gregory A. Good -- Mapping meteorology / Katharine Anderson -- Fog, dust and rising air : understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century / Richard Staley -- Scaling down : the "Austrian" climate between empire and republic / Deborah R. Coen -- Teaching the weather cadet generation : aviation, pedagogy and aspirations to a universal meteorology in America, 1920-1950 / Roger Turner -- The struggle over airways in the Americas, 1919-1945 : atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism / Gregory T. Cushman -- Global climate change and human agency : inadvertent influence and "Archimedian" interventions / James Rodger Fleming.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Eight essays from a summer 2004 meeting of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, held in Kloster Polling, Upper Bavaria, launch a new series on the history of the science of atmospheres. The topics include meteorology in John Herschel's (1792-1871) terrestrial physics; understanding cloud formation, cloud chambers, and the role of meteorology in Cambridge physics in the late 19th century; and atmospheric science, aviation technology, and neocolonialism in the Americas 1919-45. All but one of the contributing historians of science are from the US. Science History Publications USA is a division of Watson Publishing International.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Table of contents

ISBN:

9780881353679 (alk. paper)
0881353671 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Meteorology History.
Climatology History.
Climate and civilization.
Science History.
Météorologie Histoire.
Climat et civilisation.
Sciences Histoire.
Climatology.
Meteorology.
Science.
Historische Klimatologie
Meteorologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Fleming, James Rodger.
Janković, Vladimir, 1961-
Coen, Deborah R.
Science-history studies on atmospheres ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293696
Call No.: BIB 238845
Status: Available