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3 September 2014
The Beautiful Science exhibition at the British Library ran earlier this year featuring important and beautiful items from its collections. The exhibition included work by Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, founder of the Met Office, as well as new interactive exhibits.
One of the images in the exhibition was this drawing of air currents by Robert FitzRoy. It featured in his book, of 1863, The Weather Book: A manual of practical meteorology. A copy of this book is in the Met Office Library and Archive while the British Library holds the original drawing.
In May, the Met Office teamed up with the British Library and Creative Data at a workshop at the British Library to explore and share the beauty of Met Office science. The collaboration generated new ideas for visualising data and communicating science.
We have also used the British Library's collection for contemporary research. Met Office scientists use weather data extracted from India Office Records ships' logbooks to inform climate models.
Image: air currents over the British Isles, Robert FitzRoy, The Weather Book: A manual of practical meteorology. London, 1863. National Meteorological Archive.
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