Defining the wind
Subtitle: the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry
By: Scott Huler
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Beaufort, Francis, -- Sir, -- 1774-1857; Beaufort scale
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before; title: Beaufort of the Admiralty; title: In search of the wind; title: The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way; title: Reverse engineering the wind; title: "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man; title: Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the dictionary, and how Sir Francis Beaufort slept with his sister; title: Taking the measure of the wind: the fabulous beaufortometer; title: A picture of the wind: poetry, the shipping forecast, and the search for the North Shields observer; title: Observation, a panegyric: on the Beaufort moment