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Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life
- Title
- Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
- Author
- Hoeppe, Götz, 1969-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xx, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Blau, die Farbe des Himmels. English
- Alternative Title
- Blau, die Farbe des Himmels.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-3684
- ISBN
- 9780691124537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0691124531 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006026520
- OCLC
- 71004215
- Author
- Hoeppe, Götz, 1969-
- Title
- Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the German.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-3684