Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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N551.566/3
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English
German
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xx, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Prologue : looking at the sky -- 1. Of philosophers and the color blue -- 2. A blue mixture : light and darkness -- 3. Aerial perspective -- 4. A color of the first order -- 5. Basic phenomenon, or optical illusion? -- 6. A polarized sky -- 7. Lord Rayleigh's scattering -- 8. Molecular reality -- 9....
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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1st ed.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2007.
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Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life / Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart.
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Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-323) and index.
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c2007.
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N551.566/3
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74VKO5jLMZMM
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0691124531 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691124537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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551.566
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991022675179702626
