Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910: Taming the Weather

ISBN-13: 9780367785505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 412 str.

Aitor Anduaga

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.