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The nature of light & colour in the open air.

Title
The nature of light & colour in the open air. Translation [by] H.M. Kremer-Priest, revision [by] K.E. Brian Jay.
Author
Minnaert, M. G. J. (Marcel Gilles Jozef), 1893-1970.
Publication
[New York] Dover Publications [1954]

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Description
362 pages illustrations; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Licht en kleur in het landschap. English
Alternative Title
  • Licht en kleur in het landschap.
  • Nature of light and colour in the open air
Subject
  • Licht
  • Meteorological optics
  • Light
  • Color
  • Light
  • Color
  • light (energy)
  • colors (hues or tints)
  • symbolic color
  • color (perceived attribute)
  • Meteorological optics
  • Farbe
  • Luft
  • Optische verschijnselen
  • Meteorologie
  • Meteorologia
Note
  • Translation of: Licht en kleur in het landschap, pt. 1 of De natuurkunde van't vrije veld.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Sunlight and shadows -- Reflections of light -- Refraction of light -- The curvature of light rays in the atmosphere -- Intensity and brightness of light -- The eye -- Colours -- After-images and contrast phenomena -- Judging shape and motion -- Rainbows, haloes and coronae -- Light and colour of the sky -- Light and colour in the landscape -- Luminous plants, animals and stones.
ISBN
  • 0486201961
  • 9780486201962
LCCN
54010021
OCLC
  • ocm00344859
  • 344859
  • SCSB-277812
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library