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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 2006; v. 256; p. 91-99;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.256.01.04
© 2006 Geological Society of London

Early Beginnings

The end of classical meteorology, c. 1800

Vladimir Jankovic

Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine and Wellcome Unit, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK vladimir.jankovic{at}manchester.ac.uk

The article argues that the classical (Aristotelian) understanding of meteorology underwent a profound change by the late 18th century. As a result of a series of empirical, theoretical, methodological and institutional changes in the European earth sciences, meteorology ceased to be understood as a natural philosophy of ‘meteors’ and was more closely associated with the laws of the gaseous atmosphere. This shift had a direct effect on how one understood the origins of ‘meteors’ and their relationship with the phenomena of the weather.

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