Book ID: CBB000740868

Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (2006)

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Fleming, James Rodger (Editor)
Jankovic, Vladimir (Editor)
Coen, Deborah R. (Editor)


Science History Publications
Publication date: 2006
Language: English


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xx + 264 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Golinski, Jan (2007) Review of "Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 846). unapi

Review Carey, Mark (2008) Review of "Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate". Environmental History (p. 158). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Turner, Roger (2006) Teaching the Weather Cadet Generation: Aviation, Pedagogy and Aspirations to a Universal Meteorology in America, 1920--1950. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 141). unapi

Chapter Fleming, James Rodger (2006) Global Climate Change and Human Agency: Inadvertent Influence and “Archimedean” Interventions. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 223). unapi

Chapter Cushman, Gregory T. (2006) The Struggle over Airways in the Americas, 1919--1945: Atmospheric Science, Aviation Technology, and Neocolonialism. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 175). unapi

Chapter Good, Gregory A. (2006) A Shift of View: Meteorology in John Herschel's Terrestrial Physics. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 35). unapi

Chapter Anderson, Katharine (2006) Mapping Meteorology. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 69). unapi

Chapter Coen, Deborah R. (2006) Scaling Down: The “Austrian” Climate between Empire and Republic. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 115). unapi

Chapter Jankovic, Vladimir (2006) Intimate Climates, from Skins to Streets, Soirées to Societies. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Staley, Richard (2006) Fog, Dust and Rising Air: Understanding Cloud Formation, Cloud Chambers, and the Role of Meteorology in Cambridge Physics in the Late 19th Century. In: Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (p. 93). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Burnett, Charles
Chen, Zhenghong
Edwards, Paul N.
Heymann, Matthias
Bos, Gerrit
Boss, G.
Journals
History of Meteorology
American Scientist
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Australian Historical Studies
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Publishers
Kegan Paul International
MIT Press
Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana)
Duke University Press
Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (MAST)
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Concepts
Weather forecasting
Meteorology
Climate and climatology
Computer simulation
Earth sciences
Disasters; catastrophes
People
al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq
Rossby, Carl-Gustav
Friedman, Robert Marc
Von Neumann, John
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
Tao, Shiyan
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
Medieval
Places
United States
Great Britain
China
Brazil
Soviet Union
Tibet
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