Is Meteorology a Science? | Nature

ABSTRACT THE recent article in NATURE on the Treasury Blue Book relating to meteorology brings into unpleasant prominence the opinion of the eminent astronomer, Sir G. Airy, that meteorology

is not a science; and the evidence of the eminent physicist, Sir William Thomson, to the same effect; while a celebrated philosopher in the columns of the _Fortnightly Review_ has not long

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Meteorology a Science?. _Nature_ 15, 510 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015510c0 Download citation * Issue Date: 12 April 1877 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015510c0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE

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