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Outlines of a mechanical theory of storms
Thomas Bassnett
Before satellites and radar, one theorist tried to explain every gale with mechanics and a luminous ether filling space. Bassnett surveys the state of meteorology, the earth's original condition, La Place's grand aim, and Bessel's competing opinion, then argues the vacuum modern systems demand cannot hold. A bold, contrarian look at how storms were once reasoned from first principles. Step into a nineteenth-century weather debate.
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91 chapters
- 1OUTLINES OF A MECHANICAL THEORY OF STORMS,
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3PREFACE.
- 4FOOTNOTES:
- 5MECHANICAL THEORY OF STORMS.
- 6SECTION FIRST.
- 7PRESENT STATE OF METEOROLOGY.
- 8ORIGINAL CONDITION OF THE EARTH.
- 9GREAT OBJECT OF LA PLACE.
- 10BESSEL’S OPINION.
- 11A VACUUM REQUIRED BY MODERN SYSTEMS.
- 12DIFFICULTIES OF THIS VIEW.
- 13ETHER IMPONDERABLE.
- 14ELECTRIC FLUID THE MEDIUM OF SPACE.
- 15NEWTONIAN GRAVITY.
- 16GRAVITY MECHANICAL.
- 17GREAT PRINCIPLE OF DYNAMICS.
- 18SPECIFIC HEAT.
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