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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future
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The Sunday Times bestseller. An astonishing account of the sailors, scientists and inventors who sought to understand the weather.**Book of the Week on Radio 4**’Gripping’ The Times’Exhilarating’ Sunday TimesIn an age when a storm was evidence of God’s wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma to realise their ambitions. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of mavericks set out to unlock the secrets of the atmosphere. Meet Luke Howard, the first to classify the clouds, Francis Beaufort, quantifier of the winds, James Glaisher, explorer of the upper atmosphere by way of a hot air balloon, Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings, and at the centre of it all Admiral Robert FitzRoy: master sailor, scientific pioneer and founder of the Met Office. Peter Moore’s exhilarating account navigates treacherous seas, rough winds and uncovers the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding.
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| Weight | 0.339 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.6 × 13 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 432 |
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| Year Published | 2016-4-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099581671 |
| About The Author | Peter Moore is a writer, journalist and lecturer. He teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford. His debut, Damn His Blood, reconstructed a rural murder in 1806. His second, The Weather Experiment, a New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year', traced early efforts to forecast the weather. His latest book, Endeavour, was a multiple book of the year and a Sunday Times bestseller. He presents a history podcast called Travels Through Time. |
Richly researched, exciting… It is both scientific and cultural history, of prizewinning potential and as fresh and exhilarating throughout as a strong sea breeze. |
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| Other text | Superbly researched and grippingly written… Moore is at least as interested in the personalities and their rivalries, and the sheer spendour and catastrophies of weather itself – storms and shipwrecks, heatwaves and floods (all vividly described) – as by the science. And he weaves it together, deftly picking up threads left dangling in earlier chapters, darting across continents, embracing swashbuckling sea captains and fastidious bureaucrats, penny-pinching politians and mad inventors, with as sharp an eye for eccentricity, absurdity and tragedy as for genius. The result is a panorama of the entire Victorian era. |
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