Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life
Why is the sky blue? Parents don't know what to say when their children ask. This illustrated work answers this ancient and surprisingly complex question. It takes the reader on a historical and scientific journey to show the various ways people in different times and places have explained why the sky looks blue.
eBook, English, c2007
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., c2007
History
xx, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
9780691124537, 0691124531
1158773789
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
Translated from the German
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