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Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.Description: xx, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691124537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Blau, die Farbe des Himmels. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.56/6 22
LOC classification:
  • QC494.7 .H6413 2007
Online resources:
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.
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Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.

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.

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