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hom-72	Wille, Robert-Jan	Colonizing the Free Atmosphere: Wladimir Köppen’s ‘Aerology’, the German Maritime Observatory, and the Emergence of a Trans-Imperial Network of Weather Balloons and Kites, 1873-1906	2017	29	.pdf	application/pdf	14680	510	41	It was a golden age for German aerology: in the years that Bismarckian Realpolitik gave way to Wilhelmian Weltpolitik, partly thanks to Köppen German aerology became even transcontinental, resulting in a global scramble for the ‘free atmosphere’. It was a crucial year in German meteorology, because the second International Meteorological Conference in Rome produced a formalized organization, in which Neumayer took over from Bruhns the position of member in the International Committee, moving meteorological leadership from Leipzig to Hamburg.	cache/hom-72.pdf	txt/hom-72.txt