On The Atmospheric Changes Which Produce Rain Wind Storms And The Fluctuations Of The Barometer

Author : Thomas Hopkins
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ISBN 13 : 9781332025565
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book On the Atmospheric Changes Which Produce Rain, Wind, Storms written by Thomas Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Atmospheric Changes Which Produce Rain, Wind, Storms: And the Fluctuations of the Barometer For many years meteorological phenomena, in Lancashire and its neighbourhood, had engaged a portion of my attention. The winter of 1837-8 I passed in Rome and Naples, where my thoughts were directed to the climate of those places; and, on my return to England, I determined to make inquiries into the causes which produce the atmospheric peculiarities of those parts. What I met with in books, written professedly on meteorology, appeared obscure and unsatisfactory, and I resolved to employ a portion of my leisure in collecting, from travellers, facts likely to throw some light on the subject, and particularly to endeavour to trace the laws of nature in the department of meteorology, where she operates on a large scale: believing that, in so moveable a body as the atmosphere, that was the best course to adopt, in order to see the separate working of each cause. The facts collected in this way at first appeared little better than a mass of contradiction and confusion, but, by putting them into the form of tables, and constructing charts and diagrams, to assist the mind by presenting pictures to the eye, slowly and gradually the influence of general principles appeared as pervading the whole. The facts which were apparently opposed to those principles were then subjected to a more careful examination, and the result was an arrival at the conclusions presented in the following pages. Some of those conclusions were, from time to time, communicated to the Manchester Philosophical Society, and they are now submitted to the public. If they have truth for their basis, they will, probably, be adopted by others; if they have not, I shall only add one to the list of those who have failed in attempting to explain the causes which determine the movements of the atmosphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.