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BL
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| Record Number
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711403
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b533592
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| Main Entry
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Golinski, Jan
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| Title & Author
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British weather and the climate of enlightenment /\ Jan Golinski
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2007
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xv, 284 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226302059 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226302058 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index
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| Contents
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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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Climatology
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Meteorology-- Great Britain-- History
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Weather
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Great Britain, Climate
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| Dewey Classification
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551.50941/09033
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| LC Classification
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QC989.G69G66 2007
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QC989.G69G66 2007
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