The Weather Experiment
The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future
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Product details:
- Publisher Random House
- Date of Publication 7 April 2016
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9780099581673
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 197x130x28 mm
- Weight 346 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
The Sunday Times bestseller. An astonishing account of the sailors, scientists and inventors who sought to understand the weather.
**Book of the Week on Radio 4**
'Gripping' The Times
'Exhilarating' Sunday Times
In an age when a storm was evidence of God’s wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma to realise their ambitions. But buoyed by the achievements of the Enlightenment, a generation of mavericks set out to unlock the secrets of the atmosphere.
Meet Luke Howard, the first to classify the clouds, Francis Beaufort, quantifier of the winds, James Glaisher, explorer of the upper atmosphere by way of a hot air balloon, Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings, and at the centre of it all Admiral Robert FitzRoy: master sailor, scientific pioneer and founder of the Met Office.
Peter Moore’s exhilarating account navigates treacherous seas, rough winds and uncovers the obsession that drove these men to great invention and greater understanding.
