An edition of Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
(2004)
Defining the wind
the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry
1st ed
by Scott Huler
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
June 28, 2005, Three Rivers Press
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in English
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Defining the wind: the Beaufort scales, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry
2004, Crown Publishers
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
August 10, 2004, Crown
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Table of Contents
Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before
Beaufort of the Admiralty
In search of the wind
The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way
Reverse engineering the wind
"Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man
Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the dictionary, and how Sir Francis Beaufort slept with his sister
Taking the measure of the wind: the fabulous beaufortometer
A picture of the wind: poetry, the shipping forecast, and the search for the North Shields observer
Observation, a panegyric: on the Beaufort moment
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