The Way To Avoid The Centre Of Our Violent Gales Compiled By G W Blunt Observations On The Hurricanes And Storms Of The West Indies And The Coast Of The United States By W E Redfield With A Chart

This bibliography was started in 1872 by Prof. Cleveland Abbe, chief scientist in the weather service when it was still part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. By 1889 the collection had grown to over 60,000 books, dissertations, articles, and pamphlets -- essentially everything printed about meteorology and related topics up to 1889. This bibliography contains over 16,000 of the most important entries in the original collection. It is a new edition that combines 4 volumes into one -- Temperature, Moisture, Winds, and Storms -- and integrates the errata and several supplements into the original text. Over 2/3 of the entries are not in English.

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Gisela Kutzbach has provided an unparalleled account of the mainstream of meteorological thought during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book takes us from the era of attempts to describe disturbances as mechanistic interactions of air currents, through Espy's introduction in the 1830's of the proposition that cyclones are convective systems driven by heat of condensation in central rainy areas, up to the distinctively different polar front theory of 1920, often considered as the birth of modern meteorology. Follies and controversies as well as successes are recounted, and in the tale the cast of characters, many of them acute observers or experimenters as well as theoreticians, and some crusty and dogmatic, are brought to life. The period was one in which basic concepts of thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and energy conversions emerged with parallel accommodations to the special needs of meteorology. Influences of the development of synoptic meteorology and early aerology are thoroughly treated, essential mathematical expositions are presented in their original forms with explications, and theories and analyses are illuminated by numerous well-chosen figures and quotations. Concise but complete, and written in a style easy to comprehend, the treatise is a lively account of a lively time in the development of science. Kutzbach has succeeded well in her objectives, to provide "an insight in the particular problems and methods of problem solving in nineteenth century meteorology" and to illustrate "that science is a human activity and that its development is an open-ended process involving the constant testing of hypotheses."