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Predicting the Weather – Victorians and the Science of Meteorology
Engelsk Hardback
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Predicting the Weather – Victorians and the Science of Meteorology
Engelsk Hardback

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Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
376
ISBN-13:
9780226019680
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226019683
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2005
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
240mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2005
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