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1. Bulfinch, Age of Fable, 62; ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.750–779, 2.1–400.
2. Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change, 53.
3. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. 10, lines 649–650.
4. Dante, Divine Comedy: Inferno, canto 4, lines 146–148.
5. Catlin, North American Indians, 1:152–153.
6. Quinn, Ishmael, 80–81.
7. Verne, Purchase of the North Pole, 143.
8. Twain, American Claimant, opening section, “The Weather in This Book.”
9. Hahn, Wreck of the South Pole, or the Great Dissembler, 48.
10. Griffith, Great Weather Syndicate, 6.
11. Cook, Eighth Wonder, 55–56.
12. Gratacap, Evacuation of England, 54.
13. Train and Wood, Man Who Rocked the Earth, 11.
14. England, Air Trust, 17–21.
15. Wilson, “Rain-Maker,” 503.
16. Mergen, Weather Matters, 233.
17. Roberts, Jingling in the Wind, 3–6.
18. Nash, Rainmaker, 60–61.
19. Quoted in “From the Footlights,” n.p.
20. [McGavin], “Darren’s Theatre Page,” n.p.
21. Kael, “Reviews A–Z,” s.v. “The Rainmaker.”
22. Liebling, Just Enough Liebling, 283.
23. Clarke, “Man-Made Weather,” 74.
24. Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, 201.
25. Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death, 26.
26. Bohren, “Thermodynamics,” n.p.

2. rain makers

1. Bacon, Works, vol. 8, Great Instauration, 23–24.
2. Ibid., vol. 5, New Atlantis, 399.
3. Ibid., vol. 8, New Organon, 115.
4. Fleming, “Meteorology,” 184–188.
5. Butterfield, Origins of Modern Science, viii.
6. Merchant, Death of Nature, 193.
7. Cohen, Revolution in Science; Shapin, Scientific Revolution.
8. Fleming, Meteorology in America, 23–54, 66–73, 78–81, 95–106.
9. Espy, Third Report on Meteorology, 100.
10. Espy, Philosophy of Storms, 492–493.
11. Congressional Globe, 25th Cong., 3d sess., December 18, 1838, 39–40.

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