The Work of Wind: Land Lecturis Publishing Cardinal Points

Cardinal Points

aber immer auch wegen ihrer vermeintlichen Künstlichkeit und ihrer Gefügigkeit gegenüber jeder neuen Mode geschmäht

All the work featured in this book draws out the tension in the term archaic

“A wonderful book … informative and moving … a great recovery of an instructive life and literary effort

Die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Maschine sowie zwischen Mensch und Tier verschwimmt

The Work of Wind: Land Lecturis Publishing Cardinal PointsIn 1806, the British sea admiral Sir Francis Beaufort invented the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force as an index of thirteen levels measuring the effects of wind force. It was first used for the practical navigation of nineteenth century ocean space; through a system of observation, wind speed was measured by observing how it composes at sea (for example, waves are formed) and decomposes on land (for example, leaves are blown from trees, chimney pots