LEADER 03425nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910459306403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-90189-3 010 $a9786612901898 010 $a0-226-30206-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226302065 035 $a(CKB)2670000000060457 035 $a(EBL)616037 035 $a(OCoLC)690177211 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413237 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11300727 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413237 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10380823 035 $a(PQKB)10877430 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616037 035 $a(DE-B1597)523639 035 $a(OCoLC)741350928 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226302065 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616037 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10431284 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL290189 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000060457 100 $a20060925d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBritish weather and the climate of enlightenment$b[electronic resource] /$fJan Golinski 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-30205-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index. 327 $aExperiencing the weather in 1703 -- The "exquisite atmography" and its author -- The atmosphere and the earth -- Clouds in the head -- Public weather and the culture of enlightenment -- The great storm in public debate -- Providence and the British climate -- Conversation and weather lore -- Recording and forecasting -- The discipline of the diary -- The calendar and the seasons -- Forecasting by the heavens -- Barometers of enlightenment -- The genealogy of weather instruments -- The instrument trade and consumers -- Interpreting the "oraculous glasses" -- Sensibility and climatic pathology -- The hippocratic revival -- Aerial sensitivity and social change -- The politics of atmospheric reform -- Climate and civilization -- The enlightenment debate on climate -- Medicine and the colonial situation -- America: climate and destiny -- Conclusion: the science of weather. 330 $aEnlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate's role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rationa 606 $aMeteorology$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aWeather 606 $aClimatology 607 $aGreat Britain$xClimate 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMeteorology$xHistory. 615 0$aWeather. 615 0$aClimatology. 676 $a551.50941/09033 700 $aGolinski$b Jan$0746014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459306403321 996 $aBritish weather and the climate of enlightenment$91989278 997 $aUNINA