A History of the Wind (Corbin Alain)(Pevná vazba)

Everyone knows the wind's touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity humans have borne witness to the wind, and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly original volume, Alain Corbin sets out to illuminate the wind's storied history. He shows how, prior to the nineteenth century, the noisy emptiness of wind was only experienced and described according to the sensations it provoked. Imagery of the wind featured prominently in literature, from the ancient Greek epics through the Renaissance and Romanticism to the modern era, but little was known about where the wind came from and where it went. It was only in the late eighteenth century,
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