Appropriating the weather : Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology / Robert Marc Friedman
de Friedman, Robert Marc (1949-)
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 251 pp., illustrations. Contents; 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. Meteorologists Norway ; Biography. Atmospheric physics.
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- Appropriating the weather : Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology / Robert Marc Friedman
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- Friedman, Robert Marc (1949-)
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- 0801420628
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- 9780801420627
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press
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- 1989
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