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000282593 1001_ $$aHuler, Scott.
000282593 24510 $$aDefining the wind :$$bthe Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth century admiral turned science into poetry /$$cScott Huler.
000282593 250__ $$a1st ed.
000282593 260__ $$aNew York :$$bCrown Publishers,$$cc2004.
000282593 300__ $$a290 p. :$$bill. ;$$c22 cm.
000282593 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
000282593 5050_ $$aIntroduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the dictionary, and how Sir Francis Beaufort slept with his sister -- Taking the measure of the wind: the fabulous beaufortometer -- A picture of the wind: poetry, the shipping forecast, and the search for the North Shields observer -- Observation, a panegyric: on the Beaufort moment.
000282593 60010 $$aBeaufort, Francis,$$cSir,$$d1774-1857.
000282593 650_0 $$aBeaufort scale.
000282593 85200 $$bgen$$hQC933$$i.H85$$i2004
000282593 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003025973.html
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