Excerpt from The Law of Storms Considered Practically: Illustrated With Numerous Woodcuts The progress of meteorology and a more systematized method of observation having developed new views in respect to the nature and origin of storms, the subject has, during the last ten or dozen years, been one of continual discussion and much controversy. This work has been written to give, in brief, the history of the development of the law of storms, - to contrast the old "circular," with the later "spiral," theory, - and to show to what extent the old practical rules for storm-sailing require modification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.