The Weather Experiment: the Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First Edition, First Printing (full number line). xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), color maps; 24 cm Fine in fine jacket; small remainder mark to top edge. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780865478091, 0865478090

"A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible." // Contents: The weather experiment. Dawn. Seeing. Writing in the air; Nature caught in the very act; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold. Morning. Contesting. Detectives; Trembling air, whirling winds; Liquid lightning. Midday. Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies; Beginnings; Dangerous paths. Afternoon. Believing. Dazzling bright; Endings; Truth telling. Dusk. West winds. Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.