Description Begins by examining the “new science of the seveneteenth century” in enlightenment Europe. Heymann shows that the new science of observation, especially scientific weather observation, led to the evolution of climate ideas and knowledge […]
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Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather
Description Readable and informative, Invisible in the Storm is an important companion book for weather and climate scholars because it emphasizes an additional lens through which weather can be studied––the history of math. Invisible in […]
Air Apparent
Description Air Apparent shows how the weather map has taken on a variety of forms throughout the last four centuries––moving from a hand-eye executed graphic object to a computer-printed and later digitally displayed graphic––by tracing […]