Reading the Skies

Reading the Skies

Author: Vladimir Jankovic

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-04-19

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780226392165

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From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.


The Huguenots

The Huguenots

Author: Jane McKee

Publisher: Apollo Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781845194635

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Examines the situation of French Protestants before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of them fled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau, covering a period from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century.


Writing the Environment

Writing the Environment

Author: Richard Kerridge

Publisher:

Published: 1998-03-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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The contributors to this critique of the modern world write about a range of environment-related issues and assess the impact of a variety of groups on popular culture. They see the environmental crisis as the limit of postmodernism.