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Title
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Henry Piddington (1797–1858) The Sailor's Hornbook for the Law of Storms
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Description
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Understanding extreme weather phenomena in the colonies was of national interest to the British Empire. Sea captain and colonial officer in India, Henry Piddington, responded to this need with his hornbook (a title taken from children’s primers) educating sailors in the workings of what he named ‘cyclones’ and offering tools for first-hand data collection. These transparent cards would allow sailors to map a storm’s track based on the wind’s rotation: counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.
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Identifier
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[D.-L.L.] E3.1 [Piddington]
A Thousand Words for Weather
