Author: John H. Conover
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1940033829
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This volume is an accont of early developments in meteorological research that brings to life the struggles of young pioneers—the trials and tribulations of developing new instruments, and the difficulty of sampling the atmosphere under challenging working conditions, to name just two. The book adds to the rich heritage of meteorological literature, documenting all the "firsts" achieved by this important weather observatory. An extensive bibliography of work by Observatroy personnel and source references to the Observatory's climatological data are provided. Heavily illustrated and richly detailed, this book will be of value to weather enthusiasts interested in the development of the science of meteorology, as well as to practicing meteorologists and weather historians wanting to study the growth of their scientific discipline.
The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Author: John H. Conover
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1940033829
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This volume is an accont of early developments in meteorological research that brings to life the struggles of young pioneers—the trials and tribulations of developing new instruments, and the difficulty of sampling the atmosphere under challenging working conditions, to name just two. The book adds to the rich heritage of meteorological literature, documenting all the "firsts" achieved by this important weather observatory. An extensive bibliography of work by Observatroy personnel and source references to the Observatory's climatological data are provided. Heavily illustrated and richly detailed, this book will be of value to weather enthusiasts interested in the development of the science of meteorology, as well as to practicing meteorologists and weather historians wanting to study the growth of their scientific discipline.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1940033829
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This volume is an accont of early developments in meteorological research that brings to life the struggles of young pioneers—the trials and tribulations of developing new instruments, and the difficulty of sampling the atmosphere under challenging working conditions, to name just two. The book adds to the rich heritage of meteorological literature, documenting all the "firsts" achieved by this important weather observatory. An extensive bibliography of work by Observatroy personnel and source references to the Observatory's climatological data are provided. Heavily illustrated and richly detailed, this book will be of value to weather enthusiasts interested in the development of the science of meteorology, as well as to practicing meteorologists and weather historians wanting to study the growth of their scientific discipline.
Observations and Investigations Made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory ...
Author: Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Milton, Mass
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An Account of the Foundation and Work of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Author: Abbott Lawrence Rotch
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Observations Made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Author: Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College
Author: Harvard College Observatory
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Includes separate vol.: Contents of Annals of Harvard College Observatory, v. 1-73.
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Includes separate vol.: Contents of Annals of Harvard College Observatory, v. 1-73.
Popular Science
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Looking Forward
Author: Jamie L. Pietruska
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, “weather prophets,” business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority—as well as for an audience—and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster’s reputation. Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life. Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, “weather prophets,” business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority—as well as for an audience—and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster’s reputation. Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life. Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain.
Miscellaneous Papers
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Annual Report of the Meteorological Office
Author: Argentina. Dirección General de Meteorología, Geofísica e Hidrología
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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