Time, talk, and the weather in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Weather, Climate, Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 17-38

  Golinski, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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