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Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life
Blau, die Farbe des Himmels. English
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- Creator
- Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xx, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691124537, 0691124531
- OCLC
- ocm71004215
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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