ISBN: 9780521468367 - Color and Light in Nature (4 results)

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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. …

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