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“The historical and technical evolution of the barometer during the three centuries since its invention is systematically and thoroughly documented… The author has furnished extremely valuable new data about many of the instrument makers… The more significant of the surviving barometric instruments are listed and described in a 20-page appendix, an extremely useful addition to a most impressive and valuable reference work for the historian of science and of technology (more…)

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Clint Willis, the anthologist de l’extrème who brought us High, takes to the brine for a wide-lens collection of tales from the high seas in Rough Water. Much of it aims for the outer reach as portrayed in Sebastian Junger’s Perfect Storm. Armchair navigators will thrill to the dangers and codes of honor that intermingle in the surf, as in Robin Knox-Johnston’s stiff-upper-lip telling of his solo circumglobal sail: “I was in the lead and stood a slight chance of w (more…)

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