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ISBN: PB: 9781935704584, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 10 halftones, 10 line drawings

Today, most people look down when they want to check the weather, peeking at cell phones or popping open a browser, instead of looking up at one of the most accessible weather predictors of all the sky. Knowing what the atmosphere has in store withou...

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Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Watching Vesuvius A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Cocco Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226923710, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco revea...

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