Planetary Climate before the Space Age

by Ralph Lorenz

This book tells the story of how we learned what controls the temperature of the planets, including our own. From the first ideas on climate in ancient times, to the magnificent intellectual leaps of the Renaissance, then via the progressive understanding of heat and the daring explorations of the Earth and atmosphere by ship, mountain ascent and balloons in the 19th century, to the modern era of mathematical prediction of weather and climate, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1546814191
• ISBN13: 9781546814191
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"