British weather and the climate of enlightenment

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golinski, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1703-1800.
Meteorology > Great Britain > History.
Weather.
Climatology.
weather.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Climatology
Meteorology
Weather
Meteorologische Beobachtung
Great Britain > Climate.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
USA
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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 the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate's role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rational control. Reading th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 284 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index.
ISBN:9780226302065
0226302067
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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