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THIS volume is the thirteenth of the series of reprints of texts and charts concerning meteorology, and terrestrial magnetism published in Berlin under the editorship of Dr. Hellmann. The editor's previous achievements in the bibliography of meteorology are so conspicuous that it will not surprise any one to find that he has selected and arranged extracts from the earliest regular meteorological records in such a way as to produce a most interesting volume. His investigations have incidentally led to considerable additions to our store of knowledge of the meteorology of Europe during the centuries referred to, for inquiry among the libraries has proved the existence of a number of useful weather registers in the margins of old calendars. These doubtless owe their origin, as Dr. Hellmann suggests, to the curious combination of the dearness of paper and the prevalence of the notion of referring weather changes to astronomical causes not exclusively solar, a notion not even yet quite extinct. The index of meteorological observations in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries accordingly occupies as much as twenty-six pages and becomes an important work of reference for the study of secular changes of climate.
Meteorologische Beobactungen vom xiv. bis xvii. Jahrhundert.
Mit einer Einleitung. Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. G. Hellmann. Pp. 127. 4to. (Berlin: A. Asher and Co.)
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Meteorologische Beobactungen vom xiv bis xvii Jahrhundert . Nature 64, 124 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064124a0
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