{"product_id":"predicting-the-weather-katharine-anderson-9780226019680","title":"Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology","description":"Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStudying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In \u003ci\u003ePredicting the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, \u003ci\u003ePredicting the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katharine Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226019683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226019680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.48w x 0.98d","brand":"Katharine Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447597641983,"sku":"9780226019680","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_967210ac-726e-440d-b3e2-26986a1ebd86.jpg?v=1777233752","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/predicting-the-weather-katharine-anderson-9780226019680","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}