20 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Learning About Forestry
How to start on my adventure—how to become a forester—was not so simple. There were no schools of Forestry in America. ... Whoever turned his mind toward Forestry in those days thought little about the forest itself and more about its influences, and about its influence on rainfall first of all. So I took a course in meteorology, which has to do with weather and climate. and another in botany, which has to do with the vegetable kingdom—trees are unquestionably vegetable. And another in ... 1 
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notesHow Pinchot studied forestry, a subject that did not exist in his time, so he studied meteorology, geology, and botany.
30 APR 2012 by ideonexus
Astronomy Comes to the Observer, Meteorology Must be Pursued
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area. Folksonomies: astronomy meteorology
Folksonomies: astronomy meteorology
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notesIt requires collaboration with many observers around a large area of land.
02 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
James Sadler Describes the Scientific Potential of Balloo...
Aerostation is too intimately connected with the entire range of Science, its exhibitions are too brilliant and interesting, not to deserve the patronage which a liberal public always confers on desert … It is so well calculated to throw light on the obscure science of Meteorology, to develop many interesting facts in Magnetism, and to assist the progress of Chemistry and Electricity, that its success must be regarded as interesting to Philosophy [science] in general.Folksonomies: exploration ballooning
Folksonomies: exploration ballooning
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notesThe activity opened new realms of exploration and enlightenment in multiple scientific fronts.
09 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Ancient Observation of the Changing Landscape
So it is clear, since there will be no end to time and the world is eternal, that neither the Tanais nor the Nile has always been flowing, but that the region whence they flow was once dry; for their action has an end, but time does not. And this will be equally true of all other rivers. But if rivers come into existence and perish and the same parts of the earth were not always moist, the sea must needs change correspondingly. And if the sea is always advancing in one place and receding in a... 1 notes
notesFrom Aristotle's "Meteorology". He sees that rivers dry and flow and move.
09 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
An Experiment in Evaporation and Condensation finds Eleme...
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour. 1 notes
notesFrom Aristotle's "Meteorology". An example of knowing something from experiment.
09 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Earth Processes Take Place Gradually and Over Long Period...
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed. 1 notes
notesFrom Aristotle's "Meteorology". Most processes of the Earth take place over time periods longer than human lifetimes and even eras of human existence.
