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Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910 - Aitor Anduaga

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Taming the Weather

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
412 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-78550-5 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the western world.
Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the Western world.

Aitor Anduaga is an Ikerbasque Research Professor (Ikerbasque: Basque Foundation for Science) at the Basque Museum of the History of Medicine and Science, University of the Basque Country.

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List of tables



Acknowledgements



List of abbreviations



Introduction



CHAPTER 1 - Pre-1850 conceptualizations of storms



CHAPTER 2 - Meteorology and statistics before 1854



CHAPTER 3 - The adoption of an Eulerian approach by state interests



CHAPTER 4 - The Lagrangian approach as a counterweight



CHAPTER 5 - The convergence between statistics and synoptic method



CHAPTER 6 - The hegemony of the Eulerian approach and the beginning of its end



CHAPTER 7 - Behind weather forecasting: national interests and the primacy of public service over research



CHAPTER 8 - Meteorological cartography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 607 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10 0-367-78550-1 / 0367785501
ISBN-13 978-0-367-78550-5 / 9780367785505
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