Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Taming the Weather
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-24459-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anduaga, Aitor

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.