On Relationship Between History of Meteorology and Ideas of Time

As we know, scientific knowledge of a certain discipline developes in corresponding with social ideas. This paper tries to fi gure out the relationship between the development of Meteorology and the ideas of Time from a historical perspective of Sociology of Science. It compared the differential weather cognition with weather service under cyclical time conception and linear time conception; the paper analyzed how revolution of social ideas interacted with the scientific progress by recalling four iconic events in the history of meteorology, including the graphing of fi rst weather map, the emergence of modern climatology, booming demand of weather forecast, and the rotational appearance of optimistic/pessimistic attitude among the general public; the essay fi nally elucidates the emphasis of timeliness in both physics and meteorology in 20th century and how the scientists delt with the nonlinearity and complexity when they attempted to imitate the motion in the physical world.