Book ID: CBB000100245

Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820 (2000)

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Jankovic, Vladimir (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xiv + 272 pp., frontis., illus., tables, app., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Centers on 18th century British sources.


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Review Sun, Emily (2002) Review of "Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820". Journal of Modern History (p. 841). unapi

Review Fara, Patricia (2002) Review of "Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 305). unapi

Review Garber, Margaret D. (2002) Review of "Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 78). unapi

Review Brooks, Robin (2002) Review of "Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820". Environmental History (p. 320). unapi

Review Lewis, Cherry (2003) Review of "Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820". Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society (p. 104). unapi

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