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Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ~ Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man’s crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19thCentury Admiral Turned Science into Poetry Scott Huler 9781400048854 Books

Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ~ Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19thCentury Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one mans crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator Sir Francis Beaufort

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Defining the Wind the Beaufort Scale and ~ It is not often I review a book that I purchased myself but Defining the Wind the Beaufort Scale and How a 19thCentury Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry by Scott Huler is one that I felt I had to comment on It is a richly written highly personal account of the search for the origins of that text of the Beaufort Scale found by Huler in that dictionary

Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ~ Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man’s crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beaufort Scale and its eccentric creator Sir Francis Beaufort It’s as much about the language we use to describe our world as it is an exhortation to observe it more closely

Defining the wind the Beaufort scale and how a ~ Defining the wind the Beaufort scale and how a nineteenthcentury admiral turned science into poetry Defining the wind the Beaufort scale and how a nineteenthcentury admiral turned science into poetry by Huler Scott Publication date 2004 Topics Beaufort Francis Sir 17741857 Beaufort scale Publisher New York Crown Publishers

Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ~ Defining the Wind The Beaufort Scale and How a 19thCentury Admiral Turned Science into Poetry Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary It was one of those moments of discovery that writers live for

Beaufort scale Wikipedia ~ History The scale was devised in 1805 by the Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort later Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort a Royal Navy officer while serving on HMS Woolwich The scale that carries Beauforts name had a long and complex evolution from the previous work of others including Daniel Defoe the century before