Manual of Meteorology: Volume 1, Meteorology in History (Paperback)

1. Meteorology in European culture; 2. Weather and climate in the 'world as known to the ancients'; 3. The measurement of time: the kalendar and the cycle of the seasons; 4. Poets and historians: the application of meteorology to agriculture and navigation. Herodotus; 5. Meteorology in the time of Aristotle; 6. Variability of Mediterranean climates in historical times; 7. From Aristotle to the invention of the barometer. Weather-lore, astrology and almanacs; 8. The reign of the barometer as weather-glass. Pioneers in the science of weather; 9. Meteorology as an international science. The meteorological library; 10. The meteorological observatory. The surface air; 11. The meteorological observatory. The upper air; 12. The meteorological laboratory. The study of the atmospheric heat-engine and the cycle of physical changes in the general circulation; 13. The development of Arithmetical and graphical manipulation; 14. The analysis of air-movement into the general circulation and the cyclone; 15. Meteorological theory in history; Notes and index.