Predicting the weather
Subtitle: Victorians and the science of meteorology
By: Katharine Anderson.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Description: The Met Office was founded in 1854 to collect weather statistics, but it quickly turned to daily forecasting, opening its work to popular scrutiny. Katharine Anderson discusses both the science of meteorology and the public expectations that shaped it in the Victorian era.