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Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology Hardcover - 1989
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- Title Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology
- Author Robert Marc Friedman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca And London
- Date 1989-03-07
- ISBN 9780801420627 / 0801420628
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.75 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88-47729
- Dewey Decimal Code 551.509
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 251 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. APPROPRIATING THE WEATHER FOR PHYSICS: A PROFESSIONAL STRATEGY (1892-1906) -- PART II. TOWARD REALIZING AN ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS: THE QUEST FOR AUTHORITY AND RESOURCES (1906-1917) -- PART III. WARTIME EXIGENCIES: PRACTICAL FORECASTING IN BERGEN AND THE ORIGINS OF A NEW CYCLONE MODEL (1917- 1918) -- PART IV. APPROPRIATING THE WEATHER FOR COMMERCE: A METEOROLOGY FOR THE POSTWAR ERA (1919) -- PART V. RATIONALIZING THE WEATHER (1920-1925) -- Conclusion -- Index. Subjects; Bjerknes, V. (Vilhelm) 1862-1951. Meteorology History. Atmospheric physics History. Meteorologists Norway ; Biography. Atmospheric physics.
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