Beaufort, Francis Sir 1774-1857

Overview

Works:	71 works in 161 publications in 4 languages and 1,939 library holdings
Genres:	Flag books Poetry Maps Biography Nautical charts
Roles:	Author, Owner, Honoree, Cartographer
Classifications:	DS48.3, 915.6

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Most widely held works about Francis Beaufort

Defining the wind : the Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry by Scott Huler( Book )
Beaufort of the Admiralty : the life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857 by Alfred Friendly( Book )
Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort, 1774-1857 by Nicholas Courtney( Book )
An exploration of the origin and persistence of the Beaufort wind force scale by Blair Kinsman( )
Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort by Nicholas Courtney( Book )

Karamania, or, A brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity. With plans, views, &c. collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the Lords commissioners of the Admiralty, in the years 1811-1812 by Francis Beaufort( Book )
Beaufort, l'amiral du vent : une vie de sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857 by Raymond Reding( Book )
Summary of data on wind force and the Beaufort scale by International Hydrographic Bureau( Book )
Remarks on revolving storms by Great Britain( Book )
Catalogue of the library of the late Rev. Richard Allott, D.D. Fellow of Trinity College, and Precentor of Armagh ... and the library of the late Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, 29th of November, 1858, and two following days by S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm)( Book )
Defining the wind : the Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry by Scott Huler( Recording )
Libraries by Sotheby's (Firm)( Book )
Notice of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B., D.C.L., Corr. Inst. France, F.R.S. : reprinted by permission from the "Daily News" of the 13th January 1858 by Francis Beaufort( Book )
Read Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort ... hydrographer to the Queen from 1829 to 1855 by James Scott( Visual )
Sir Francis Beaufort papers : addenda by Francis Beaufort( )
Letter: to Charles Wilkes by Francis Beaufort( )
University of Houston space-age basketball 73-74 by University of Houston( Book )
Collection of autographs of scientists by Ray E. D Rawlins( )
Sir Francis Beaufort letter to Frederick William Beechey by Francis Beaufort( )

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Most widely held works by Francis Beaufort

Karamania, or, A brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity. With plans, views, &c. collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the Lords commissioners of the Admiralty, in the years 1811-1812 by Francis Beaufort( Book )

45 editions published between 1817 and 2014 in English and Turkish and held by 170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Remembered for devising the measure of wind speed that bears his name, the naval officer and hydrographer Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) also had a hand in the production of more than a thousand nautical charts over the course of his career. In 1810 he had been appointed to command the frigate Frederikssteen by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. His mission was to explore 'Karamania', a contemporary European term for the shores of southern Turkey. For two years Beaufort charted the coastline and investigated its classical ruins before his work was brought to an end in 1812 by a Turkish attack which left him wounded. Returning to England, Beaufort set about drawing up the charts of his survey and documenting his findings, publishing this work in 1817, complete with engraved maps and plates. Experts and laypeople received the book favourably, as it shed much light on an underexplored region

Karamanien oder Beschreibung der Südküste von Klein-Asien by Francis Beaufort( Book )

13 editions published between 1821 and 2000 in German and Undetermined and held by 25 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoir of a survey of the coast of Karamania : made in pursuance of the orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty by Francis Beaufort( Book )

4 editions published in 1820 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan in the years 1813 and 1814 : with remarks on the marches of Alexander and retreat of the ten thousand by John Macdonald Kinneir( Book )

2 editions published in 1821 in German and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Blow : winds from Christina Rossetti and the Beaufort scale by Christina Georgina Rossetti( Book )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Formule pour administrer méthodiquement l'eau minérale antiputride et anti-scorbutique. De Beaufort. Avec un Traité des maladies relatives à la marine, où elle est propre ; par M. F. D. B. [Faure de Beaufort], ancien professeur royal de médecine & médecin ordinaire du Roi by Francis Beaufort( Book )

1 edition published in 1783 in French and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Kidnapping of Prince Alexander of Battenberg, his return to Bulgaria and subsequent abdication. Translated by Captain F. Beaufort by A. von HUHN( Book )

2 editions published in 1887 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

[Cryptography, a system of secret writing ... adapted for telegrams, and the new half-penny postage cards. [Edited by W.M. Beaufort.]] by Francis Beaufort( Book )

3 editions published between 1870 and 1873 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Remarks on revolving storms by Great Britain( Book )

1 edition published in 1853 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoir of a Survey of the Coast of Karamania ; made ... by Francis Beaufort ... in 1811 & 1812 by Great Britain( Book )

2 editions published in 1820 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Beaufort Scale of Wind-Force. Report of the Director of the Meteorological Office (W.N. Shaw) upon an inquiry into the relation between the estimates of wind-force according to Admiral Beaufort's scale and the velocities recorded by anemometers belonging to the Office, with a report upon certain points in connection with the inquiry by G.C. Simpson ... and notes by Sir G.H. Darwin ... W.H. Dines ... and Commander Campbell Mepworth by Great Britain( Book )

2 editions published in 1906 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Karamania by Francis Beaufort( Book )

2 editions published in 1818 in Undetermined and English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On a general method in dynamics : by which the study of the motions of all free systems of attracting or repelling points is reduced to the search and differentiation of one central relation, or characteristic function by William Rowan Hamilton( Book )

1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Results of the chronometer observations : Dr. Tiarks' report on Captain Foster's chronometrical observations in H.M.S. Chanticleer, to Captain F. Beaufort by I. L Tiarks( Book )

1 edition published in 1834 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Notice of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort ... : reprinted by permission from the "Daily News" of the 15th January 1858 by Harriet Martineau( Book )

1 edition published in 1858 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

North Pacific Ocean by E. & G.W. Blunt (Firm)( )

1 edition published in 1853 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Survey of the Coast of Karamania ; made ... by Francis Beaufort ... in 1811 & 1812. [Charts.] by Great Britain( Book )

1 edition published in 1820 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Account book by Francis Beaufort( )

in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Account book listing personal and professional expenses and items of income when Beaufort was a lieutenant aboard the H.M.S. "Phaeton." Also lists Beaufort's share of the prize money from captured ships

New - Zealand and oceanic islands( )

2 editions published in 1857 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of a series of charts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, showing ocean currents, Great Circle routes and distances, soundings

Arctic expeditions. : further return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 15 March 1849 ; - for copies of extracts "of any proceedings or correspondence of the Admiralty, in reference to the Arctic expeditions.- (In continuation of Parliamentary Papers, nos. 264 and 386, of session 1848, up to the present time.)"( Book )

1 edition published in 1849 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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