"In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. Using previously understudied archival material, he reconstructs these sites and the research carried out in them, in doing so treating meteorology as an experimental observatory science"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Observatory experiments; 1. Meteorology all at sea; 2. Meteorology at the colonial observatories; 3. Mountain meteorology on Ben Nevis; 4. Geographies of the rain; Conclusion: Historical geographies of future weather.
