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SUMMARY:MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
DESCRIPTION:<h4>	Climate in Words and Numbers:<br>How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs<br> </h4><p>	<strong>Joyce Chaplin</strong><br>Professor of Early American History<br>Harvard University</p><p>	<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="bd26ed8e-f7ab-40fc-b574-c41fb4471247" data-align="left" alt="Weather records" data-view-mode="hwp_medium"></drupal-media></p><p>	 </p><p>	 </p><p>	 </p><p>	 </p><p>	<br><!--break--></p><p>	With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Chaplin is compiling a database of manuscript notes about the weather in early American almanacs, 1637-1820. Her talk focuses on how people recorded weather in numbers (including degrees Fahrenheit) and in words, ranging from "dull" to "elegant!" These notations are significant as records of a period of climate change, the Little Ice Age, also as records of how people made sense of and coped with that climatic disruption.</p><div class="page" title="Page 1">	<div class="layoutArea">		<div class="column">			<p>				<span style="11.000000pt;'Cambria'">This event is part of </span><span style="11.000000pt;'Cambria'">the MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History sponsored by the History Faculty and</span><span style="11.000000pt;'Cambria'"> the Program in Science, Technology and Society. For more information contact kalopes@mit.edu </span>			</p>		</div>	</div></div>
LOCATION:MIT - Building E51, Room 095, Corner of Amherst & Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge, MA
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