Vision Through the Atmosphere (Heritage) - Softcover

Middleton, W.E.K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1487587104 ISBN 13: 9781487587109

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1952

Synopsis

In recent years, the problem of seeing through the atmosphere has been given intensive and costly consideration in several quarters, but particularly in the Untied States and Great Britain. A problem which once concerned mainly the meteorologists has become of great importance in military tactics as well as in peacetime transportation.
The present volume is the only full account in English of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors which lie at the basis of the calculation of the range of vision through the atmosphere. There is an extended chapter on instruments and one on the author's own theory of the colours of distant objects.
The figures are from many sources althrough many of them have been drawn specially for this book. The bibliography contains 420 entries nearly all of which are directly referred to in the text.

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About the Author

W. E. KNOWLES MIDDLETON was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Optical Society of America. In 1959 the latter Society awarded him its Ives Medal for his work in meteorological optics, photometry, and colorimetry. He wrote 15 books and approximately 100 scientific papers on the science of meteorological sciences and instruments.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1952
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487587104
• ISBN 13: 9781487587109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250