British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226302058
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Science / History; Science; Climatology; Great Britain; Meteorology; Weather; Science/Mathematics
Description: Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. This work reveals how a sense of the national climate emerged in the 18th century from the systematic recording of the weather and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population.