Why the sky is blue
Subtitle: discovering the color of life
By: Götz Hoeppe ; translated with John Stewart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691124537
Subjects: Color -- History; Color (Philosophy); Optics -- History; Light -- Scattering; Atmospheric physics
Work titles: Blau, die Farbe des Himmels.
Notes: Translated from the German

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Of philosophers and the color blue; title: A blue mixture : light and darkness; title: Aerial perspective; title: A color of the first order; title: Basic phenomenon, or optical illusion?; title: A polarized sky; title: Lord Rayleigh's scattering; title: Molecular reality; title: Ozone's blue hour; title: The color of life