Weather Foreknowledge: Theoretical and Practical Contributions Towards Its Acquisition

"Weather Foreknowledge: Theoretical And Practical Contributions Towards Its Acquisition" is a mid-19th-century treatise that argues weather foreknowledge is achievable through geometry and systematic observation. The volume, originally published in 1866 by Houlston and Wright in London, outlines a comprehensive program to forecast weather by reducing atmospheric phenomena to harmonious cycles: a meteorological year of 365 days 6 hours synchronized to a 24-hour day, with midnight as the starting point and a 24-part calendar. It treats the atmosphere as a serial, nearly ideal fluid composed of oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen, and explains how temperature, humidity, and wind are shaped by solar and planetary cycles, latitude, altitude, and geography. The author proposes meteorological latitudes, longitudes, and altitudes, and describes how wind arises from equatorial-to-polar flows and the earth’s rotation, with latitudinal bands for heat, dryness, calm, moisture, wind, and cold. The work also discusses the role of the sun’s movement, the tilt of the ecliptic, and the atmospheric axes in shaping regional weather.