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Johnston's Physical Atlas
The geographer and cartographer Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871) produced
his Physical Atlas in 1848, which mapped terrestrial physics, such as magnetic
directions, as well as air currents, directions of the winds, trade routes,
and districts of hurricanes, typhoons, and monsoons.
Johnston's maps were based on the work of Heinrich Berghaus (1797-1884), a
German geographer whose Physikalischer Atlas (1838-1848) was heavily
influenced by Alexander von Humbolt's unified vision of Nature. Berghaus and
Johnston had planned to produce an English volume of the atlas together, but
it was Johnston who ended up realising the project.
This kind of 'at a glance' philosophy towards interpretations of weather
continued to be championed by FitzRoy's successors at the Meteorological
Office. In 1881, then Director Robert Scott (1833-1916) claimed that if
out-stations "told us the appearance of the sky and landscape, in addition to
sending up their instrumental readings" than the office would be better
equipped to issue storm warnings.
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