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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

Category: Computers & Technology, Education & Teaching, Teen & Young Adult
Author: Andrew R. Biel
Publisher: Clifford Stein
Published: 2017-04-23
Writer: Beth Moore, Stephen M.R. Covey
Language: Greek, French, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified), Finnish
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ... - "The Beaufort (Wind) Scale and how a 19th Century Admiral turned science into Poetry." Exultant writing about a fairly boring subject (history of sea navigation), that made it come alive. It is about writing and words, which I love, and about knowing moments of intense joy by observing the world in openness and detail.

Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ... - The Beaufort Scale encourages us to pay attention. This book is a history of the Beaufort Scale, a descriptive list of categories by which to define wind. Surprisingly poetic and elegantly precise, the Beaufort Scale is used by sailors, meteorologists, kiters, and anyone just fascinated with wind.

PDF De-fin-ing the Wind: the Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th ... - DE-FIN-ING THE WIND: THE BEAUFORT SCALE, AND HOW A 19TH-CENTURY ADMIRAL TURNED SCIENCE INTO POETRY Scott Huler, 2004, 291 pp., $23.00, hardbound, Crown Publishers, ISBN 1-4000-4884-2 T he ever-blowing wind within the atmosphere around our globe is commonly felt, and its strength is communicated day by day: as a full

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Beaufort scale - Wikipedia - Wind speed on the 1946 Beaufort scale is based on the empirical relationship: v = 0.836 B3/2 m/s Where v is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number. For example, B = 9.5 is related to 24.5 m/s which is equal to the lower limit of "10 Beaufort".

'Defining the Wind' and the Beaufort Scale : NPR - Writer Scott Huler talks about the "poetry" of the Beaufort wind scale and its inventor, Sir Francis Beaufort. Huler is the author of Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century ...

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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th ... - Recommended - details of the ubiquitous wind scale In the early years of the 19th century, then Commander in the British Navy and future Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, Francis Beaufort sketched out a table that categorized winds into 12 cardinal levels of progressively higher force with corresponding titles and velocities.

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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ... - "Nature, rightly questioned, never lies." —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859Scott 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. Written centuries ago, its 110 words launched Huler on a remarkable journey ...

Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th ... - But its poetry compelled him to learn as much as he could about the man responsible for defining the wind -- 19th-century British Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1856) -- and to discover his other writings. Thus began a two-decade globe-trotting quest that produced far more than historical discovery.

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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How ... - Surprisingly poetic and elegantly precise, the Beaufort Scale is used by sailors, meteorologists, kiters, and anyone just fascinated with wind. With descriptions of smoke, leaves, branches, trees, umbrellas and inland waters, the 1906 Beaufort Scale classifies wind strength from 0-12.

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Defining the wind : the Beaufort scale, and how a ... - 290 p. : 22 cm Includes index Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse-engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the ...

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