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Climate in the Age of Empire : Weather Observers in Colonial Canada
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slonosky, Victoria C., 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meteorology--Canada--History.
- Meteorology.
- Meteorology--Canada--Observations.
- Meteorology--Canada.
- Meteorologists--Canada.
- Meteorologists.
- Climatic changes--Canada.
- Climatic changes.
- Canada--History.
- Canada.
- Meteorological Service of Canada--History.
- Meteorological Service of Canada.
- Place of Publication:
- American Meteorological Society
- Summary:
- Investigates the work of early Canadian weather observers who were schooled and working in the scientific tradition inherited from Europe, the scientific community they built, and their attitudes toward climate change.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface
- The landscape : the territory, scientific networks, and early thermometers
- New france's climatologist, Dr. Jean-François Gaultier
- The clearing and cultivation climate improvement theory in the 18th century
- British-American weather observers to 1830
- Mccord and the Montreal Natural History Society
- 19th-century theories of climate change
- Meteorology and the military
- Military weather observations and the founding of the Toronto Observatory : the magnetic crusade
- Medical meteorology
- The Toronto Observatory becomes the Meteorological Service of Canada
- The beginnings of official meteorology : Smallwood and McGill, G.T. Kingston, and the Meteorological Service of Canada
- What do three centuries of observations tell us about how the climate has changed?
- Extraordinary seasons
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781944970215
- 1944970215
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