British weather and the climate of enlightenment / Jan Golinski.
Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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