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...Carlos S. Dimas Abstract In 1872 the Argentine state founded the Argentine Meteorological Service (AMS) as an appendage of the National Observatory. Under the guidance of US astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould and his successor Walter Davis, the AMS created a national network of amateur weather...

... majority of the marginalized populace, however, aerial battles, blood-red sunsets, and other portents in the heavens constituted a "hieroglyphics of social struggle" in support of a "subversive meteorological hermeneutics" (66, 76). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries local geographers...

... University Press , 2018 . Dimas Carlos . “ In Service and Observation of the State: The Argentine Meteorological Service and the Culture of Weather Observation in Argentina, 1872–1915 .” Agricultural History 96 , nos. 1–2 ( 2022 ): 128 – 63 . D'Orefice M. , Pecci M...

... toexplorethesouthernreachesoftheLouisianaPurchaseF. orone hundred threedayshe andPhiladelphiachemistGeorgeHunterconductedan expeditionuptheRed andOuachitariversduringthewinterof1804-1805before returnintgo providereliablegeographicalg,eological,and meteorological datapertainintgotheOld SouthwestD.unbar'sliferepresentas remarkable storyofan...

.... The weather systems of England have, from time immemorial, emerged from the sea, crossed the countryside, and unleashed their wrath on the towns and cities; with the rise of meteorological science in the nineteenth century, however, the meaning of the weather would henceforth emanate from the urban centers...

..., hydrology, meteorology, and paleontology. Rozum never lets us forget, however, that their cultivated childhood experiences came at the disadvantage of the region's Indigenous peoples, and that settler colonialism is the driving force behind her study. ...

... for blocking the sun s rays, which allegedly hindered the blossoming of fruit trees and the germination of crops.13 To bolster these claims, the society assembled a small cadre of meteorological, medical, and agricultural experts to attest to moor smoke s hazards. Chief among them was Wilhelm von Laer, general...

...: meteorological events (thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, frost, snow, drought, heat, rains and dampness, flood, hail); geological events (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, particularly problematic for France's colonial territories); various insects and invasive plants; plant and animal diseases; and war...

..., often starting with a sandy base to which fertilizers were added (which was called an artificial soil by the scrupulous selection of similar seeds, by measuring all spraying water as well as drainage water, and finally, by protecting the sample from all kinds of meteorological influences.As...

... Kollmorgen and Johanna Kollmorgen, "Landscape Meteorology in the Plains Area," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 63 (Dec. 1973): 424-41 Thomas R. Wessel, "Prologue to the Shelterbelt, 1870 to 1934," Journal of the West 6 (Jan. 1967): 119-34. George Perkins Marsh, The Earth as Modified...

... Domingo Sarmiento (1868—1874), for instance, invited American scientist Benjamin A. Gould to establish the astronomy observatory, Gould’s protégé Gualterio Davis to head the Department of Meteorology, and American George Albert Stearns to develop the first teacher training schools. Marcelo Montserrat...

... epizootic. As a result, mortality levels were considerably higher 214 2011 British Game Shooting in Transition, 1900 1945 than normal. The committee attributed this to management-induced inbreeding, compounded by unfavorable meteorological conditions.30 The 1930s also saw the development of the Game Farmers...

... and kiwi) that are intensively farmed there. The Agrarian Changes in the Lower Neretvian Area / 197 J FMAMJ iiiiii precipitation JASOND ?? air temperature Figure 2. Climate diagram of Opuzen meteorological station. Drawn by Josip Faricic. annual precipitation distribution (mostly rain) is not favorable...

.... Widtsoe's attitude may persist, as a modern agricul tural scientist felt compelled to state that "low rainfall is the basic cause of drought, although other meteorological factors contribute to the water deficit." W. J. Staple, "Dry land Agriculture and Water Conservation," inResearch on Water: A Symposium...

... publishing articles defining the labor aspects of haciendas in Calendario de Espinosa , an almanac that provided astronomical and meteorological data, religious ephemerides, and planting dates for farmers, arranged according to the local conditions and practices of Yucatán. In 1860 El manual del Mayordomo...

..., and National Water Policy, 1850-1917," evaluates themedi cal, meteorological, and social justifications forwetlands drainage thatmade surface water removal a paramount public policy objective. He is the author of several forthcoming essays on national and transnational water, flood control, and drainage...

..., farmers discussing the disease outbreak were confident in their own accounts of stock disease. They often suggested explanations other than anthrax, from meteorological theories to bad feeding, and even those who accepted that this was indeed an outbreak of anthrax still questioned Gilruth s explanation...

...; the Laboratory for Environmental Radioactivity; the Applied Meteorology Section; the Laboratory for Sanitary Engineering; the Sanitary Physics Section; and the Medicine and Health Section. See Il Centro di Studi Nucleari della Casaccia , 41–50 ; “Attività del Comitato,” 1960, 531–41 . 25...

... within that incomplete list are the concerns of a dozen disciplines, from meteorology to botany to animal behavior. This intertwined multiplicity is perhaps part of the reason that historians of science, who often follow a single discipline, have had difficulty coming to grips with agricultural knowledge...