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Defining the wind, the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into poetry, Scott Huler

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Defining the wind, the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into poetry, Scott Huler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Defining the wind

Oclc number

53814496

Responsibility statement

Scott Huler

Sub title

the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into poetry

Table Of Contents

Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the dictionary, and how Sir Francis Beaufort slept with his sister -- Taking the measure of the wind: the fabulous beaufortometer -- A picture of the wind: poetry, the shipping forecast, and the search for the North Shields observer -- Observation, a panegyric: on the Beaufort moment

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