BOOK
Title:
A Barometer and a thermometer
Creator:
Knoefel, Peter K. (Peter Klerner), 1906-
Publication:
Firenze, 1980.
Notes:
Summaries in Italian, French and German. Estratto da Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze, Anno V, Fasc.2, 1980.
Extent:
p.[55]-67 : plate ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
On the use of the barometer on surveys and reconnaissances. Part I, Meteorology in its connection with hypsometry. Part II, Barometric hypsometry
Creators:
Williamson, R. S. (Robert Stockton), 1824-1882 | United States Army. Corps of Engineers.
Publication:
Van Nostrand, New York, 1868.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
248 p. : 30 pl., 1 map ; folio.
BOOK
Title:
On the use of the barometer on surveys & reconnaissances, being a compendium, without pl. of no.15 of the Professional papers of the corps of engineers
Creators:
Williamson, R. S. (Robert Stockton), 1824-1882 | United States Army. Corps of Engineers.
Publication:
Gov't. pr. o, Washington, 1878.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Description:
Dimension:H:40.500in W:12.500in D:3.000in
Abstract:
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Mahogany banjo-shaped case for hanging on a wall. Within is set a wheel barometer, controlling the needle of a dial set in the bottom, on which weather indications are given. A thermometer and hygrometer are also set in the front. Marked "Bishop, Portland St."
BOOK
Title:
An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or weather-glass: wherein the reason and use of that instrument, the theory of the atmosphere, the causes of its different gravitation are assign'd and explain'd : and a modest attempt from thence made towards a rational account and probable judgment of the weather
Creator:
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754
Publication:
Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, London, 1730.
Extent:
[6] . 100 p. ; duodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
Instructions for taking and recording meteorological observations and for preserving and repairing the instruments; prepared for the use of field and astronomical parties of the expeditions for explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian
Creator:
Hoxie, R. L. (Richard Leveridge), 1844-1930
Publication:
U.S. Govt. Print. Off, Washington, 1874.
Extent:
22 p. ; duodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
English barometers, 1680-1860: a history of domestic barometers and their makers
Creator:
Goodison, Nicholas.
Publication:
Cassell, London, 1969.
Notes:
Bibliography: p. 341-343.
Extent:
xiii, 353 p. 3 plates, illus. (incl. 3 col.), facsims. 29 cm.
BOOK
Title:
De aere, fluidisque ad aeris genus pertinentibus
Creator:
Herbert, Joseph von, 1725-1794
Publication:
Typis Josephi Nobilis de Kurzboeck, Vindobonae, 1779.
Notes:
"Errata" following p. 183.
Extent:
183 p. : fold. diagr. ; 21 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Description et usage des barometres, thermometres et autres instrumens météorologiques
Publication:
Chez J.B. Capel, imprimeur-libraire, A Dijon, 1785.
Notes:
First published in 1781. Signatures: a A-F G. With 4 folded tables inserted at end (1 engraved)
Extent:
vii, [1], 102, [2] p. : 4 tables ; duodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
Observations made in Savoy, in order to ascertain the height of mountains by means of the barometer: being an examination of Mr. de Luc's rules, delivered in his Recherches sur les modifications de l'atmosphere
Creator:
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus WilliamSir, 1751-1804
Publication:
Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nicholas, London, 1777.
Call #:
PAM. V.1107, NO.14
Extent:
85, [1] p. , [1] folded leaf of plates : map, tabs. ; 25 cm.
