Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
2007
QC494.7 .H6413 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
Author
Hoeppe, Götz, 1969-
Uniform Title
Blau, die Farbe des Himmels. English
ISBN
9780691124537 (alk. paper)
0691124531 (alk. paper)
0691124531 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the German.
Description
xx, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
QC494.7 .H6413 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.56/6
Note
Translated from the German.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
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Table of Contents
Of philosophers and the color blue
A blue mixture : light and darkness
Aerial perspective
A color of the first order
Basic phenomenon, or optical illusion?
A polarized sky
Lord Rayleigh's scattering
Molecular reality
Ozone's blue hour
The color of life.
A blue mixture : light and darkness
Aerial perspective
A color of the first order
Basic phenomenon, or optical illusion?
A polarized sky
Lord Rayleigh's scattering
Molecular reality
Ozone's blue hour
The color of life.