TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Katharine
TI  - Predicting the weather: Victorians and the science of meteorology 
SN  - 9780226019703 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QC857.G77 A53 2005eb
U1  - 551.5/0941 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Meteorology
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Weather forecasting
KW  - Physics
KW  - Science
KW  - Geology
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Meteorology & Climatology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Meteorologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Wettervorhersage
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-324) and index; A science of the weather -- Prediction, prophecy, and scientific culture -- Weather prophets and the Victorian almanac -- Weather in a public office -- Precision and a science of probabilities -- Maps, instruments, and weather wisdom -- Science, state, and empire
N2  - 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 p
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