Meteorology known as the first "anemometer". In 1607, Galileo Galilei constructed a thermoscope. In 1611, Johannes Kepler wrote the first scientific treatise on snow crystals: "Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift of Hexagonal Snow)". In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli invented the mercury barometer. In 1662, Sir Christopher Wren invented the mechanical, self-emptying, tipping bucket rain gauge. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit created a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer. In 1742, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, proposed the "centigrade" temperature scale, the predecessor of the current Celsius scale. In 1783, the first hair hygrometer was demonstrated by
Lou Anders to submit to "Live Without a Net". Roberson's work subsequently appeared in "Argosy" magazine, Anders' "FutureShocks" and his novels "Here, There & Everywhere" and "Paragaea: A Planetary Romance" have both been published by Pyr. Roberson was also featured in the Anders-edited anthology "Sideways in Crime" (2008). Anders notes that his anthology "Live Without a Net" was a direct reaction against a certain type of science fiction. He says, in interview with Rick Kleffel: I was reacting to what I felt was a preponderance of post-cyberpunk in American science fiction in the year 2000. The anthology was a deliberate attempt to