Aitor Anduaga

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Taming the Weather

• Broschiertes 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: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780367785505
• ISBN-10: 0367785501
• Artikelnr.: 61211257

Autorenporträt

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.

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