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A History of the Wind (Hardcover)
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A History of the Wind (Hardcover)
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Everyone knows the wind's touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes
it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and
feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne
witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet,
despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has
evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly
original volume, Alain Corbin sets out to illuminate the wind's
storied history. He shows how, before the nineteenth century, the
noisy emptiness of wind was experienced and described only
according to the sensations it provoked. Imagery of the wind
featured prominently in literature, from the ancient Greek epics
through the Renaissance and romanticism to the modern era, but
little was known about where the wind came from and where it went.
It was only in the late eighteenth century, with the discovery of
the composition of air, that scientists began to understand the
nature of wind and its trajectories. From that point on, our
understanding of the wind was shaped by meteorology, which mapped
the flows of winds and currents around the globe. But while science
has enabled us to understand the wind and, in some respects, to
harness it, the wind has lost nothing of its mysterious force. It
still has the power to destroy, and in the wind's ethereal presence
we can still feel its connection with creation and death.
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