{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-barometer-w-e-knowles-middleton-9780801871542","title":"The History of the Barometer","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiddleton relies on research from Western European documents and manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He begins his story with a pre-history of the barometer, the Torricellian experiment, the subsequent experiments and controversies in the 1640s, and the barometric experiments during the remainder of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater chapters are concerned with the mercury barometer as a scientific instrument, discussing the efforts to expand the scale to render the instrument portable, and to attain greater accuracy. These chapters follow accounts of mercury barographs, the history of the corrections to the barometer, the history of the mercury barometer in North America, and the luminescence that appears when a barometer is moved in the dark. The final chapters discuss barometers other than those using the weight of a column of mercury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA large number of the more interesting barometers seen by the author in his extensive travels appears in the appendix. Nearly 200 figures and diagrams depict the wide variety of barometers studied by the author over his long career at the Smithsonian Institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. E. Knowles Middleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801871549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801871542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.96w x 1.27d","brand":"W. E. Knowles Middleton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522268655871,"sku":"9780801871542","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59a1d31c-4db6-40e9-a37d-a46006b3a14c.jpg?v=1700156390","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-history-of-the-barometer-w-e-knowles-middleton-9780801871542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}