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hom-48	Munger, Sean	The Weather Watchers: Amateur Climatologists and Environmental Consciousness, 1810-20	2015	11	.pdf	application/pdf	6462	220	42	Although the competence and usefulness of weather watchers to meteorology as a whole was hotly debated in the period, for example in Britain’s Royal Society, 5 for purposes of my analysis the activity of weather observation and recording is significant because those who did it believed they were doing something useful or even revolutionary for science, 6 whether or not contemporaries or historians agreed with them. What I term weather watchers are people defined largely by what they did—observe and record the weather for a significant period of time and in some systematic fashion, however imperfectly—and not by the status they held or how they were viewed by others.	cache/hom-48.pdf	txt/hom-48.txt