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hom-1	Williamson, Fiona; Janković, Vladimir	A Question of Scale: Making Meteorological Knowledge and Nation in Imperial Asia	2020	9	.pdf	application/pdf	5197	162	25	They build from the paradigm that mastering the means of understanding and—significantly—making use of the weather in Asia involved working with manifold modes of meteorological knowledge drawn from multiple origins. Understanding and putting to use the knowledge of newly- discovered weather patterns, unfamiliar seasonal changes, extremes of heat, winds, rains, unusual ocean currents and tides, convective storms, and non-routine events such as hurricanes and droughts—not to mention the medical conditions associated with the physiological and epidemiological qualities of non-European atmospheres—called for institutional means of information monitoring and delivery.8 Institutional initiatives geared towards investment and organization of meteorological knowledge in non-European geographies thus became the norm among colonial governments and were made available to colonial promoters, traders, prospectors, botanists, and physicians.	cache/hom-1.pdf	txt/hom-1.txt