Branch of science dealing with the study of atmospheric phenomena and the short term variation of weather conditions including wind, precipitation, temperature, humidity, cloud cover, and air pressure

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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the years 1807-1809. Coloured engraving by J. Girtin, 1810, after T. Hanson.

Meteorology: cloud formations above a rural landscape, with a key to the types. Engraving by E. Radcliffe.

Inventions shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1867 or 1878): a set of measuring devices for a meteorological station, a metal dish, and a table clock. Wood engraving.

Meteorology: types of cloud formations, and a waterspout (bottom). Engraving by J.W. Lowry.

Prognosticon meteorographicvm perpetvvm. Ein ewigwerend Prognosticon, von aller Witterung in der Lufft vnd den Wercken der andern Element: so viel betrkfft die Ankunfft, Natur vnd Wirckung aller Wind, Regen, Schnee, Thaw, Reiff, Dünst, Nebel, etc. Durch die vier Quarten oder Zeiten des Jares, nach des Monden Lauff, in allen seinen Newen Vollen vnd Viertelscheinen. ... / durch M. Bartolemaeum Scultetum Gorlicium ; der Mathematischen kunsten besondern Liebhader. [Title continues in note].

Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

Report of meteorological observations for the year 1910, with extremes and averages for the preceding years / by John Dover.

Idées sur la météorologie / par J.A. de Luc.

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

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Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

Report of meteorological observations for the year 1910, with extremes and averages for the preceding years / by John Dover.

Idées sur la météorologie / par J.A. de Luc.

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

Meteorology

Images from the collections

Images about Meteorology

Works from the collections

Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

Report of meteorological observations for the year 1910, with extremes and averages for the preceding years / by John Dover.

Idées sur la météorologie / par J.A. de Luc.

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

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