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001 2003025973
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050 00 $aQC933$b.H85 2004
082 00 $a551.51/8$222
100 1 $aHuler, Scott.
245 10 $aDefining the wind :$bthe Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry /$cScott Huler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCrown Publishers,$cc2004.
300 $a290 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $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. -- Appendix A. Beaufort scale family album -- Appendix B. Explanation of the plate describing the rigging, etc., of a first-rate man of war.
600 10 $aBeaufort, Francis,$cSir,$d1774-1857.
650 0 $aBeaufort scale.