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Science History Publications ; American Meteorological Society, New York, Published date: 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket; x, 148 pp; 26 cm. First edition. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations, diagrams, maps, and historical reproductions.
In very good condition in a very good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine; light shelf wear to extremities; binding sound. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light edge wear and mild surface scuffing. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Scholarly historical monograph examining the development of meteorological thought and practice from antiquity through 1800, focusing on the transition from Aristotelian speculation to systematic scientific observation and instrumentation. Issued as part of the American Meteorological Society Historical Monograph Series. Contents include: Preface; The Period of Speculation; The Beginning; Aristotle's Meteorologica; The Dark Before the Dawn; The Dawn of Scientific Meteorology; The Thermometer; The Barometer; The Hygrometer and Other Meteorological Instruments; Meteorological Observations; The End and the Beginning; Index.