Traces the development of the barometer as a scientific instrument from the experiments and controversies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the prec

Traces the development of the barometer as a scientific instrument from the experiments and controversies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the prec

First published in 1964, it is the acknowledged authority on the subject of barometers and is the first and only complete world history of the mercury, aneroid

A modern look at barometers and applications of barometric pressure.