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[METEOROLOGY] ESPY, JAMES P. The Philosophy of Storms.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. 9 x 5 1/2 inches (23 x 13.5 cm); xl, 552 pp.; folding map, in-text illustrations and charts. Extremities bumped and worn with some chipping, evidence of removed bookplate from front pastedown, occasional blind library stamps to text leaves, scattered foxing.
Early work of meteorology by the man dubbed the "Storm King." This book expounds upon Espy's convection theory of storms, which he had presented before the American Philosophical Society (1836) and before the French Académie des Sciences and the British Royal Society (1840), earning him his nickname. In 1842, he became meteorologist to the War Department (and in 1848 to the Navy) and developed the use of the telegraph in assembling weather observation data by which he studied the progress of storms and laid the groundwork for scientific weather forecasting. Sabin 22917.
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