The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
THE ATMOSPHERE

METEOROLOGY and ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro is very old. It may be obsolete or incorrect.

• General: Introductory:
  • La pluie et le beau temps, le chaud et le froid by Arthur Mangin [Paris: Delagrave, 1892] In dialogue form.

• General:
  • The Atmosphere and Atmospherical Phenomena by Rev. Thomas Dick [London: Religious Tract Society, 1848]
  • Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Meteorology, Addressed to the Senior Class in Yale College by Denison Olmsted [New York: Collins, 1852]
  • L'Atmosphère by Camille Flammarion [Paris: Hachette, 1872] Abridged English translation: The Atmosphere [New York: Harpers, 1873]
  • Les phénomènes de l'air by Arthur Mangin [Tours: Alfred Mame, 1886]

• General: Observational:
  • Observations météorologiques en ballon by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879]

• Aspects: BALLOONS & AIRSHIPS;

• Aspects: ELECTRICITY:
  • Experiments and observations on electricity by Benjamin Franklin [London: E. Cave, 1751].
  • Thunder and Lightning by Camille Flammarion [London: Chatto and Windus, 1905]
  • Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements by K. L. Aplin and R. G. Harrison [2013/05]

• Aspects: PREDICTION:
  • Weather Prediction by Numerical Process by Lewis Fry Richardson [Cambridge University Press, 1922]
    • Richardson's forecast: The dream and the fantasy by Peter Lynch [2022/10]

• Aspects: PRESSURE:
  • M. De Luc's Rule for Measuring Heights by the Barometer, Reduced to the English Measure of Length, and Adapted to Fahrenheit's Thermometer, and Other Scales of Heat, and Reduced to a More Convenient Expression by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 64, 158 (1774)]

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS --- Retro