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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Authors & Contributors
Cataldi, Raffaele
Maurizio Maugeri
Stefano Tibaldi
Short, Bruce H.
Franco Prodi
Carlo Cacciamani
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Historical Geography
History of Meteorology
Health and History
Publishers
Olschki
Edizioni ETS
Edizioni Osiride
MIT Press
Georg Editeur
University of California, Santa Cruz
Concepts
Earth sciences
Meteorology
Climate and climatology
Climate change
Global warming
Geothermal resources
People
Corti, Bonaventura
Saussure, Horace Bénédict de
Lewis, Meriwether
Clark, William
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
United States
England
Moravia
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Greenland
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