▼作者簡介

彼得•穆爾

Peter Moore

1983年生於英國斯塔福德郡，入英國達勒姆大學修讀曆史及社會學。2010年起在倫敦城市大學講授創意寫作課程，2017年任牛津大學創意寫作碩士研究生導師。此外，他還著有《惡有惡報》（Damn His Blood），獲得各界廣泛贊譽。

▼譯者簡介

張朋亮

西南政法大學外國語學院翻譯碩士。先後在齣版公司、能源企業、政府機構擔任過翻譯，譯有《全球化與澳門》《時間大劫案》等作品。

By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the weather. A century after the death of Newton, the laws that governed the heavens were entirely unknown, and weather forecasting was the stuff of folklore and superstition.

Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment is the account of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements. It describes their travels and experiments, their breakthroughs and bankruptcies, with picaresque vigor. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay to the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris. And it captures the particular bent of mind--combining the Romantic love of Nature and the Enlightenment love of Reason--that allowed humanity to finally decipher the skies.