Appropriating the weather : Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology / Robert Marc Friedman
por Friedman, Robert Marc 1949-
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- ISBN 13
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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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- Título
- Appropriating the weather : Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology / Robert Marc Friedman
- Autor
- Friedman, Robert Marc 1949-
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado
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- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801420628
- ISBN 13
- 9780801420627
- Editorial
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press
- Local de publicação
- Ithaca And London
- Data de publicação
- 1989
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