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THE progress of the science of meteorology to the evolution of the weather-map and beyond that to the introduction of broadcasting, which makes its treatment a matter of universal interest, can be traced from the unco-ordinated efforts of private observers, which were criticised in a report to the British Association in 1832 by J. D. Forbes, professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, as the feeble expression of an infant science. It passes through the unfulfilled ambition of a Meteorological Society of London expressed in its transactions published in 1839 by John Ruskin, who defended the science as of universal interest and as necessarily dependent on universal co-operation, and then through the co-operative investigation of weather at sea, by which the tropical hurricane earned the name of ‘cyclone’ from Henry Piddington and riveted the idea of a travelling vortex on the science.
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SHAW, N. A Century of Meteorology*. Nature 128, 925–926 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128925a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128925a0