Aitor Anduaga

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Taming the Weather

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780367244590
• ISBN-10: 0367244594
• Artikelnr.: 57145830

Inhaltsangabe

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