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作者： Scott Huler 著
出 版 社： 东至影音 (代销)
出版时间： 2005-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 290印刷时间： 2005/06/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781400048854包装： 平装内容简介
Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man’s crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator, Sir Francis Beaufort. It’s as much about the language we use to describe our world as it is an exhortation to observe it more closely.
作者简介
Scott Huler is the author of On Being Brown and A Little Bit Sideways: One Week Inside a NASCAR Winston Cup Race Team. His work is heard regularly on National Public Radio. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
目录
INTRODUCTION September 6, 1996:
Hurricane Fran and Before
CHAPTER 1. Beaufort of the Admiralty 11
CHAPTER 2. In Search of the Wind 43
CHAPTER 3. The Beaufort Scale, and Who Wrote It, in a General Way 69
CHAPTER 4. Reverse-Engineering the Wind 93
CHAPTER 5. "Nature, Rightly Questioned, Never Lies!': The Beaufort Scale, Nineteenth-Century Science, and the Last Eighteenth-Century Man 121
CHAPTER 6. Getting the Word Out: On the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the Dictionary, and How Sir Francis Beaufort Slept with His Sister 151
CHAPTER 7. Taking the Measure of the Wind: The Fabulous Beaufortometer 184
CHAPTER 8. A Picture of the Wind: Poetry, the Shipping Forecast, and the Search for the North Shields Observer
CHAPTER 9. Observation, a Panegyric: On the Beaufort Moment
APPENDIX A. Beaufort Scale Family Album
APPENDIX B. Explanation of the Plate
Describing the Rigging, &c., of a First-Rate Man of War
A NOTE ON THE SOURCES
PRIMARY SOURCES CONSULTED
NOTE ON ACCURACY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX