
For two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool. Middleton relies on research from...

First published in 1964, it is the acknowledged authority on the subject of barometers and is the first and only complete world history of the mercury, aneroid and all other barometers, including barographs.

