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.