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Light and Color in the Outdoors (Light & Color in the Outdoors) (Hardcover)

by Marcel Minnaert (Author), L. Seymour (Translator) "In the shade of a group of trees the ground is dappled randomly with spots of light, some small, some large, but all regularly elliptical..." (more)

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Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 1993. Corr. 2nd printing edition (20 April 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0387979352
ISBN-13: 978-0387979359
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm

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"A one-volume reference that covers every imaginable interaction of atmosphere and light . . . This definitive book is once again available." SKY & TELESCOPE "A change-your-life classic . . . This deeply perceptive book changes our own perceptions of all kinds of light and color events in the outdoors. You will never see the same way again outdoors. Some examples involve elementary optics (which explain the visual phenomena) but nearly all the 278 short chapters can be appreciated by the visually alert reader. My favorite examples include dappled light, rainbows (there are always two), and differences between reflected and transmitted light in seeing leaves and grass. The Dover edition is fine; the Springer-Verlag edition is better with its excellent color photographs." EDWARD R. TUFTE, Author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information All of science springs from the observations of nature. In this classic book, the late Marcel Minnaert accompanies the reader on a tour of nature's light and color and reveals the myriad phenomena that may be observed outdoors with no more than a pair of sharp eyes and an enquiring mind. From the intriguing shape of the dapples beneath a tree on a sunny day, to rainbows, mirages, and haloes, to the colors of liquid, ice, and the sky, to the appearance of the sun, moon, planets, and stars - Minnaert describes and explains them all in a clear language accessible to the general reader. The author's enthusiasm inspires the reader, who is encouraged and given abundant opportunity to make his or her own observations and perform simple experiments. Yet the phototgrapher, astronomer, or physicist will also find a wealth of detailed information, much available elsewhere, on more exotic phenomena assembled by Minnaert over many years. Among them are Sun dogs, the fata morgana, coronae, glories, noctilucent and iridescent clouds, and haloes. This volume includes 80 new photographs, over half in color, illustrating many of the phenomena - ordinary and exotic - discussed in the book. Most of the new photos are by Pekka Parviainen, the renowned Finnish nature photographer.

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First published in 1937, but extensively updated since and including 49 superb photographs in full colour, this book is a marvellous resource for the occasional observer of optical events. The rainbow is perhaps the most spectacular, and familiar. But you may be like me, and be astonished by the variety of other events you can look out for - alerted by Minnaert's lucid and charming writing. Moonbows, dewbows, sub-suns, green sun, blue sun, dozens of cloud-related events such as nuctilucent clouds, lots of landscape-related events such as how the yellow-green of a field of young corn when looking toward the sun, becomes bluish when looking in the opposite direction. The stripes on a freshly mown lawn that disappear when you look for them at right angles. The mirages you can see above tarmac roads. The width of bright sunlight on the horizon at sea - and what it can tell you about the waves or the curvature of the earth. All explained in plain language, with diagrams and quite often quotations from poems and other literature to add to an atmosphere of great enjoyment.

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