This 4-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding historical patterns of the severe weather and climate change.
This four-volume set of thematically focused and curated primary sources examines meteorology in nineteenth-century society. Knowing the history of meteorology and climatology since their inception as physical sciences in the nineteenth century is fundamental to understanding the causes and historical patterns of the severe weather and climate change that greatly preoccupy today’s society. Thematically focused collections of primary sources support the research and study needs not only of scholars, but also graduate and postgraduate students. To this end, the volumes contextualize and explain the contents of these sources. The collection brings together the most relevant themes in current scholarship: weather forecasting and nation-state building; cyclones, trade, and navigation; meteorology and religion; and weather, climate, and empire.
Volume III: Meteorology and Religion
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume III
Part
1. The Jesuits and cyclone prediction
1.1 Secchi Meteorograph
1. Angelo Secchi, Descrizione di un meteorografo, ossia registratore
meteorologico universale allOsservatorio, in Memorie dellOsservatorio del
Collegio Romano, 185759 (Roma: Tip. Delle Belle Arti, 1859), pp. 1, 8
1.2 Typhoons
2. Federico Faura,
1882. Señales precursoras de temporal en el Archipiélago
Filipino (Manila: El Comercio), reproduced and translated into English as
Signs preceding typhoons in the Philippine Islands, in Elihu Root,
Authority of P. Faura. Practical Instructions for the Certain Use of This
Sign, pp. 305-307
3. José Algué, The Cyclones of the Far East (Manila: Bureau of Public
Printing, 2nd rev. ed., 1904), pp. 11-22, 24-30, 35-39, 41-43, 46, 49-50,
89-91, 97-102, 114-116, 123-124, 130, 140-146, 237-238, 243-246
4. Louis Froc, Typhoon Highways in the Far East (Zi-ka-wei: Catholic Mission
Press, Tou-sè-wè Orphan Asylum; Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1896), pp. 1-6,
11-14, 28-32, 33-40
1.3 Hurricanes
5. Benito Viñes, Apuntes relativos a los huracanes de Las Antillas en
septiembre y octubre de 1875 y 76 (Habana: El Iris, 1877), trans. Georges L.
Dyer, Practical Hints in Regard to West Indian Hurricanes (Washington, D.C.:
US Hydrographic Office, 1885), pp. 5-15
Part
2. Correlation and prediction
2.1 Unity of forces
6. Angelo Secchi, Lunità delle forze fisiche saggio di filosofia naturale
(Roma: Tipografia Forense, 1864), pp. iii-vii, 1-
2.2 Clouds
7. Benito Viñes, Investigaciones relativas a la circulación y traslación
ciclónica de los huracanes (Habana: Imprenta del Avisador Comercial, 1895),
trans. Carlos Finlay.
1898. Investigation of the Cyclonic Circulation and the
Translatory Movement of West Indian Hurricanes (Washington, D.C.: Weather
Bureau, 1898).
8. Marc Dechevrens, Mouvements des couches élevées de l'atmosphère a
Zi-Ka-Wei, déterminés par la direction des cirri (Zi-ka-wei: Catholic Mission
Press, 1885), pp. 1-2, 5-6, 15
9. William Clement Ley, Clouds and Weather Signs, Modern Meteorology, 1879,
pp. 102-136.
10. William Clement Ley, Cloudland: A Study on the Structure and Characters
of Clouds (London: Stanford, 1894), pp. vii-ix, 21-32, 201-205
2.3 Earthquakes and the weather
11. Enrique Cappelletti, Opinion on the improbability of the earthquake
announced in Mexico for the 10th of August (Puebla de los Ángeles: Imprenta
del Colegio P. de Artes, 1887), pp. 3-9, 11-13
12. José Algué, Microseismic Movements as an Indirect Precursory Sign of a
Cyclone, in The Cyclones of the Far East (Manila: Bureau of Public Printing,
2nd rev. ed., 1904), pp. 184-187
Part
3. Clergymen, Quakers and observations
3.1 Royal Meteorological Society
13. Joseph Bancroft Reade, Observations and Experiments on the Solar Rays
that Occasion Heat, Proceedings of the Royal Society, 3, 1830, p. 457
[ Communicated by John George Children]
14. Charles Lowndes, An Account of the Hartwell Rectory Observatory,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 14, 1854, pp. 161-163.
15. Leonard Blomefield,
1858. Observations in meteorology: relating to
temperature, the winds, atmospheric pressure, the aqueous phenomena of the
atmosphere, weather-changes, etc : being chiefly the results of a
meteorological journal kept for nineteen years at Swaffham Bullbeck, in
Cambridgeshire, and serving as a guide to the climate of that part of
England. London: John Van Voorst, 1858), pp. 324-357
3.2 Quakers
16. Luke Howard, On the Modifications of Clouds (London: J. Taylor, 1804),
pp. 3-14
17. John Fletcher Miller, On the Meteorology of the Lake District of
Cumberland and Westmoreland [ Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Communicated
to the Royal Society of London,5, 757, 1843-1850, pp. 816-817
3.3 Observatories
18. Stephen J. Perry,
1880. L'Observatoire de Stonyhurst, Annales de la
Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 4, 147, pp. 281-285, 287
19. Thomas Romney Robinson, Description of an Improved Anemometer for
Registering the Direction of the Wind, and the Space Which It Traverses in
Given Intervals of Time, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 22,
1849, pp. 155-160, 166-167
3.4 Cyclone model
20. William Clement Ley, The Relation Between the Upper and Under Currents
of the Atmosphere Around Areas of Barometric Depressions, Quarterly Journal
of the Royal Meteorological Society, 3, 1877, pp. 437-445
21. Marc Dechevrens, On Vertical Currents in Cyclones, American
Meteorological Journal, 1886, 3, 4, 170-174, 176-179, 182-184.
PART 4
Weather Prognostics, Faith and Empiria
4.1 Natural Theology
22. William Whewell, Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference
to Natural Theology (London: W. Pickering, 1833), pp. v-vii, 1-14, 54-62
4.2 Popular weather prognostics
23. Charles Clouston, An Explanation of the Popular Weather Prognostics of
Scotland on Scientific Principles (Edinburgh: privately printed, 1867), pp.
8-30
4.3 Scripture
24. Alexander MacLeod, Scripture, Meteorology, and Modern Science (Glasgow:
George Baillie, 1867), pp. 3-6, 235-244
4.4 Meteorological Spectroscopy
25. Charles Piazzi Smyth, Spectroscopic prévision of Rain with a High
Barometer, Nature, 12, 299, 1875, pp.
231232.
26. Charles Piazzi Smyth, Meteorological Spectroscopy in the Small and
Rough, Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh,
14, 1870-1877, pp.
2934.
27. Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), Cloud Forms at Clova, Ripon,
1892-1895
References
Index
Aitor Anduaga is a scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, who has specialized in the history of social, ideological and cultural dimensions of meteorology and geophysical sciences in general.
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