Author: William Cole
Publisher: London, Constable
ISBN:
Category : Bletchley (Buckinghamshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Vladimir Jankovic
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226392158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.

Author: Christopher Sampson Handley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.

Author: Gwenllian Nesta Jones Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglesey (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Geoffrey Rowell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 0915138824
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Sydney Frank Markham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England)
Publisher:
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Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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