Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry by Scott Huler

Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

Scott Huler

290 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Huler’s research landed him in one of the most fascinating and rich periods of history, because all around the world in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in a grand, expansive period, modern science was being invented every day. These s...

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