01434 a2200397 4500 0367785501 20250317100411.0 250312042021GB eng 9780367785505 Taylor & Francis GBP 39.99 BB 01 eng PDX thema RBP thema NHD thema NHB thema RGB thema PDX bic RBP bic HBJD bic HBG bic RGB bic SCI032000 bisac HIS010000 bisac SCI076000 bisac SCI055000 bisac HIS000000 bisac HIS037060 bisac 551.6309034 bisac Aitor Anduaga Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910 Taming the Weather 1 Oxford Routledge 20210331 412 p Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the Western world. 2355 2355