Defining the wind : the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into po...
Defining the wind : the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into po...
Defining the wind : the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into poetry / Scott Huler.
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New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.
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N551.518/9
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Introduction : September 6, 1996 : Hurricane Fran and before -- Ch. 1. Beaufort of the admiralty -- Ch. 2. In search of the wind -- Ch. 3. The Beaufort Scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Ch. 4. Reverse-engineering the wind -- Ch. 5. "Nature, rightly questioned, never lies" : the Beaufort S...
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New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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c2004.
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But what Huler discovered is that the scale that carries Beaufort's name has a long and complex evolution, and to properly understand it he had to keep reaching farther back in history, into the lives and works of figures from Daniel Defoe and Charles Darwin to Captains Bligh, of the Bounty, and Cook of the Endeavor."--BOOK JACKET....
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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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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
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N551.518/9
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1400048842 (hardcover)
9781400048847 (hardcover)
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551.518
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991018328199702626
