Walker Gabrielle:
An Ocean Of Air
A Natural History Of The Atmosphere
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (United Kingdom), 2007
Hardback, 336 pages
Size: 216x135 mm
ISBN: 9780747581901
ISBN-10: 0747581908
List price: £15.99
You save: 30%
An Ocean Of Air
Traces a journey of scientific discovery, from the Italian Renaissance scientist Torricelli, disciple of Galileo, who realised that we live at the bottom of a dense ocean of air, to the West Virginian farmhand William Ferrel, who unlocked the secrets of the trade winds by making calculations with a pitchfork on the back of a barn door.

