British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Jan Golinski is professor of history and humanities at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Making Natural Knowledge! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Enlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. This title 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. Zusammenfassung Enlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. This title 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Golinski, Golinski Jan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226302034
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30203-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History of Ideas, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, History of Science, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology