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A beautiful and authoritative guide to naturally occurring optical phenomena
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Why is the sky blue? Why do mountains glow in the dark? Is the darkest always before the dawn? An ideal reference to have to hand in answering questions such as these, Color and Light in Nature is an endlessly fascinating exploration of phenomena that are familiar to us all, but that even trained scientists take for granted. Take the question of why stars twinkle, for instance. Twinkling, astronomers Lynch and Livingston observe, is strongest with stars that are low in the sky, and then on a clear and windy night, when starlight passing through the atmosphere encounters little pockets of turbulence that bend its rays "momentarily away from our eyes". Sunlight undergoes similar distortions, yielding mirages, "blinks", sundogs, haloes, rainbows, "mountain light", and other wonders of nature, all of which the authors describe and explain in clear and accessible prose.
Lynch and Livingston encourage their readers to seek out and study these phenomena for themselves, writing, for instance , "No effort should be spared to witness at least one total eclipse in your lifetime." They go on to make a good case for why that should be so, and why the workings of light and colour should be of interest to students of science. Their book is a lively companion and teacher. --Gregory McNamee
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'Each account is succinct and lucid, illustrated by both diagrams and photographs, some stunning in their beauty. A distinguishing feature of their account is a systematic attempt to give clear scientific explanations for each effect ... The balance of description and physical explanation is excellent.' Arthur Zajonc, Nature
'... written in a laid back and enthusiastic style ... After reading this book, I will certainly be on the look out for some of the curious effects described, camera at the ready!' Astronomy Now
'... a beautifully illustrated popular account of atmospheric phenomena.' Nature
'The overall text is well written, with clear explanations, and is properly integrated with the excellent illustrations. The latter, including some subtle effects, are reproduced accurately, and at a size that does justice to the phenomena involved.' Weather
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Color and Light in Nature
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ISBN 13: 9780521468367
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Color and Light in Nature (First Edition, 1995)
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 1995, Cambridge University Press. Paperback, issued simultaneously w/ the hardback; covers clean and bright, corner tip bump to front cover top corner, light rubbing to corner tips, lower edges and spine tail; spine square, lettering bright; binding tight, solid & square. Interior clean and unmarked; text block edges clean. Color and black and white photographs throughout, w/ diagrams, data tables and index. 9.75 x 9.75 in (4to). Printed in Great Britain. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. ________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ _ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Color and Light in Nature by David K. Lynch and William Livingston explains the optical phenomena seen w/ the naked eye, from the everyday rainbow to the eerie superior mirage. Readers learn how a rainbow forms, why the setting sun turns red and flattened, and why the night sky is never absolutely black. Cambridge University Press published the book in 1995 as a guide to seeing, photographing and understanding the optics of the outdoors. Topics run from shadows and halos to water drops, rainbows, water optics and mirages, each grounded in basic physical principles and supported by diagrams, data tables, references and an index. Color and black and white photographs document the effects in the field, and practical hints explain how to observe and photograph them. Sections on Alexander's dark band, tertiary bows and the polarization of rainbows carry the treatment into finer detail. Lynch, an astronomer and atmospheric physicist, and Livingston, a solar astronomer at Kitt Peak since 1959, wrote for sky watchers, photographers and students of physics. Lynch also took both cover photographs: forked lightning over Topanga near Los Angeles and a flattened sun setting over the Pacific. Seller Inventory # 1VG-ES110226B6
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