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Katharine Anderson

Predicting the Weather

Victorians and the Science of Meteorology

376 pages, 29 halftones, 12 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2005

Cloth $48.00

ISBN: 9780226019680   Published May 2005

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Science of the Weather
1. Prediction, Prophecy, and Scientific Culture
2. Weather Prophets and the Victorian Almanac
3. Weather in a Public Office
4. Precision and a Science of Probabilities
5. Maps, Instruments, and Weather Wisdom
6. Science, State, and Empire
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Subjects


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