A pioneer in tropical meteorology: William Sharpe's Barbados Weather Journal, April-August 1680

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1957-1964

  Chenoweth, M ^a,e   Vaquero, J M ^b   Garcia Herrera R ^c   Wheeler, D ^d  

^a Independent Scholar   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BAROMETERS; HURRICANES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

TROPICAL WEATHER; WIND VANE;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 39049093346     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-12-1957     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Anonymous, 1680: A True Narrative in which is given an account of the horrible hurricane that occurred in the Island and port of Santo Domingo of the Spaniards on the fifteenth of August of 1680. Lucar Antonio de Bedmar, 4 pp.
2. Bartolache, J. I., 1772: Noticia y descripción de los instrumentos más necesarios y manuales que sirven a la buena fisica. Mercurio Volante con Noticias Importantes y Curiosas Sobre Varios Asuntos de Física y Medicina. Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 294-302. [Reprinted Historia de la Ciencia en México: Estudios y Textos, Siglo XVIII, Elías Trabulse, Ed., CONACYT/Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1985.]
3. Bohun, R., 1671: A Discourse Concerning the Origine and Properties of Wind, with an Historical Account of Hurricanes and Other Tempestuous Winds. W. Hall, 302 pp.
4. Chenoweth, M., 2006: Historical climatology. Encyclopedia of Quarternary Science, S. A. Elias, Ed., Elsevier, 2002-2010.
5. D'Estrées, J., 1680: Letter, 24 August 1680. Colonies F3 164, Archives Nationales, Paris, F3 164 fo. 342.
6. Dunn, R. S., 1972: Sugar and Slaves. The Rise of the Plantation Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. University of North Carolina Press, 359 pp.
7. Golinski, J., 1999: Barometers of change: Meteorological instruments as machines of enlightenment. The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer, Eds., University of Chicago Press, 69-93.
8. Gribbin, J., 2007: The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution. Overlook Press, 336 pp.
9. Halley, E., 1686: An historical account of the trade winds, and monsoons, observable in the seas between and near the Tropicks, with an attempt to assign the physical cause of the said winds. Philos. Trans., 16, 153-168.
10. Jankovic, V., 2001: Reading The Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820. University of Chicago Press, 270 pp.
11. Lamb, H. H., and K. Frydendahl, 1991: Historic Storms of the North Sea, British Isles and Northwest Europe. Cambridge University Press, 224 pp.
12. Landsea, C. W., and Coauthors, 2004: The Atlantic hurricane database re-analysis project. Documentation for 1851-1910. Alterations and additions to the HURDAT database. Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present and Future, R. J. Murnane and K.-B. Liu, Eds., Columbia University Press, 177-221.
13. Lister, M., 1684: A discourse concerning the rising and falling of the quicksilver in the barometer. Philos. Trans., 14, 790-794.
14. Lizárraga, L. S., 2004: The beginning of meteorology in Peru and the work of the Cosmografiato. Proc. Int. Commission on History of Meteorology, Lima, Peru, University of Lima, 14-27. [Available online at www.mineteohistory.org/2004proceedings1.1/pdfs/02seiner.pdf
15. Ludlum, D., 1963: Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 198 pp.
16. McClellan, J. E., III 1992: Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 393 pp.
17. Middleton, W.E. K., 1964: The History of the Barometer. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 489 pp.
18. Mulcahy, M., 2006: Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. the Johns Hopkins University Press, 257 pp.
19. North, J. D., 1979: Georg Markgraf: An astronomer in the New World. Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, 1604-1679: A Humanist Prince in Europe and Brazil, E. van den Boogaart, Ed., Johan Maurits van Nassau Stichting, 394-423.
20. Persson, A. O., 2006: Hadleys Principle: Understanding and misunderstanding the trade winds. Hist. Meteor., 3, 17-42.
21. Plot, R., 1685: Observations of the wind, weather, and height of mercury in the barometer, through out the year 1684; Taken in the Musaeum Ashmoleanum at Oxford. Philos. Trans., 15, 930-943.
22. Public Record Office, 2000: Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series, Americas and the West Indies, 1574-1739, Routledge, CD-ROM Version 1.0.
23. Sharpe, W., 1680: Letter to the Royal Society. Letter-Book, Vol. VIII, The Royal Society, London, 187-196. [Copy of original MS in Letter-Book, Vol. VII, 127-134.]
24. Stearns, R. P., 1970: Sciencein the British Colonies of America. University of Illinois Press, 766 pp.
25. Teachout, T., 1982: Beware the Hurricane! Island Press Limited, 173 pp.
26. Vogel, B., 2002: Weather prediction in early modern England. Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 334 pp.