Meteorology in Nineteenth-Century Society by Anduaga, Aitor;

Short description:

This 4-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding historical patterns of the severe weather and climate change.

Long description:

This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and historical patterns of the severe weather and climate change that greatly preoccupy today’s society. Thematically focused collections of primary sources support the research and study needs not only of scholars, but also graduate and postgraduate students. To this end, the volumes contextualize and explain the contents of these sources. The collection brings together the most relevant themes in current scholarship: weather forecasting and nation-state building; cyclones, trade, and navigation; meteorology and religion; and weather, climate, and empire.

Table of Contents:

Volume III: Meteorology and Religion

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Introduction to Volume III

Part 1. The Jesuits and cyclone prediction

1.1 Secchi Meteorograph

1. Angelo Secchi, ‘Descrizione di un meteorografo, ossia registratore meteorologico universale all’Osservatorio’, in Memorie dell’Osservatorio del Collegio Romano, 1857–59 (Roma: Tip. Delle Belle Arti, 1859), pp. 1, 8

1.2 Typhoons

2. Federico Faura, 1882. Señales precursoras de temporal en el Archipiélago Filipino (Manila: El Comercio), reproduced and translated into English as ‘Signs preceding typhoons in the Philippine Islands’, in Elihu Root, Authority of P. Faura. Practical Instructions for the Certain Use of This Sign, pp. 305-307

3. José Algué, The Cyclones of the Far East (Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 2^nd rev. ed., 1904), pp. 11-22, 24-30, 35-39, 41-43, 46, 49-50, 89-91, 97-102, 114-116, 123-124, 130, 140-146, 237-238, 243-246

4. Louis Froc, Typhoon Highways in the Far East (Zi-ka-wei: Catholic Mission Press, Tou-sè-wè Orphan Asylum; Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1896), pp. 1-6, 11-14, 28-32, 33-40

1.3 Hurricanes

5. Benito Viñes, Apuntes relativos a los huracanes de Las Antillas en septiembre y octubre de 1875 y 76 (Habana: El Iris, 1877), trans. Georges L. Dyer, Practical Hints in Regard to West Indian Hurricanes (Washington, D.C.: US Hydrographic Office, 1885), pp. 5-15

Part 2. Correlation and prediction

2.1 Unity of forces

6. Angelo Secchi, L’unità delle forze fisiche saggio di filosofia naturale (Roma: Tipografia Forense, 1864), pp. iii-vii, 1-

2.2 Clouds

7. Benito Viñes, Investigaciones relativas a la circulación y traslación ciclónica de los huracanes (Habana: Imprenta del Avisador Comercial, 1895), trans. Carlos Finlay. 1898. Investigation of the Cyclonic Circulation and the Translatory Movement of West Indian Hurricanes (Washington, D.C.: Weather Bureau, 1898).

8. Marc Dechevrens, Mouvements des couches élevées de l'atmosphère a Zi-Ka-Wei, déterminés par la direction des cirri (Zi-ka-wei: Catholic Mission Press, 1885), pp. 1-2, 5-6, 15

9. William Clement Ley, ‘Clouds and Weather Signs’, Modern Meteorology, 1879, pp. 102-136.

10. William Clement Ley, Cloudland: A Study on the Structure and Characters of Clouds (London: Stanford, 1894), pp. vii-ix, 21-32, 201-205

2.3 Earthquakes and the weather

11. Enrique Cappelletti, Opinion on the improbability of the earthquake announced in Mexico for the 10th of August (Puebla de los Ángeles: Imprenta del Colegio P. de Artes, 1887), pp. 3-9, 11-13

12. José Algué, ‘Microseismic Movements as an Indirect Precursory Sign of a Cyclone’, in The Cyclones of the Far East (Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 2^nd rev. ed., 1904), pp. 184-187

Part 3. Clergymen, Quakers and observations

3.1 Royal Meteorological Society

13. Joseph Bancroft Reade, ‘Observations and Experiments on the Solar Rays that Occasion Heat…’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, 3, 1830, p. 457 [Communicated by John George Children]

14. Charles Lowndes, ‘An Account of the Hartwell Rectory Observatory’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 14, 1854, pp. 161-163. 

15. Leonard Blomefield, 1858. Observations in meteorology: relating to temperature, the winds, atmospheric pressure, the aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, weather-changes, etc : being chiefly the results of a meteorological journal kept for nineteen years at Swaffham Bullbeck, in Cambridgeshire, and serving as a guide to the climate of that part of England. London: John Van Voorst, 1858), pp. 324-357

3.2 Quakers

16. Luke Howard, On the Modifications of Clouds (London: J. Taylor, 1804), pp. 3-14

17. John Fletcher Miller, ‘On the Meteorology of the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland [Abstract]’, Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London,5, 757, 1843-1850, pp. 816-817

3.3 Observatories

18. Stephen J. Perry, 1880. ‘L'Observatoire de Stonyhurst’, Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 4, 147, pp. 281-285, 287

19. Thomas Romney Robinson, ‘Description of an Improved Anemometer for Registering the Direction of the Wind, and the Space Which It Traverses in Given Intervals of Time’, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 22, 1849, pp. 155-160, 166-167

3.4 Cyclone model

20. William Clement Ley, ‘The Relation Between the Upper and Under Currents of the Atmosphere Around Areas of Barometric Depressions’, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 3, 1877, pp. 437-445

21. Marc Dechevrens, ‘On Vertical Currents in Cyclones’, American Meteorological Journal, 1886, 3, 4, 170-174, 176-179, 182-184.

PART 4

Weather Prognostics, Faith and Empiria

4.1 Natural Theology

22. William Whewell, Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (London: W. Pickering, 1833), pp. v-vii, 1-14, 54-62   

4.2 Popular weather prognostics

23. Charles Clouston,  An Explanation of the Popular Weather Prognostics of Scotland on Scientific Principles (Edinburgh: privately printed, 1867), pp. 8-30

4.3 Scripture

24. Alexander MacLeod, Scripture, Meteorology, and Modern Science (Glasgow: George Baillie, 1867), pp. 3-6, 235-244  

4.4 Meteorological Spectroscopy

25. Charles Piazzi Smyth, ‘Spectroscopic prévision of Rain with a High Barometer’, Nature, 12, 299, 1875, pp. 231–232.

26. Charles Piazzi Smyth, ‘Meteorological Spectroscopy in the Small and Rough’, Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 14, 1870-1877, pp. 29–34. 

27. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), ‘Cloud Forms at Clova, Ripon, 1892-1895’

References

Index