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The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore

by Peter Moore

This history examines the nineteenth-century pioneers who organised the science of meteorology. It details the development of cloud classification and the first storm warnings, charting the transition from viewing weather as divine will to a predictable physical system.

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