The secret language of color : science, nature, history, culture, beauty of red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet / Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut.
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TextPublisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub., [2013]Description: 240 pages : color illustrations; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781579129491
- 752 23
- QC495.3 .E25 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (page [234]-235) and index.
Physics and chemistry -- Red -- Universe -- Orange -- Earth -- Yellow -- Plants -- Green -- Animals -- Blue -- Humans -- Violet.
Explores color's countless manifestations, providing insight into such phenomena as the visible spectrum, light absorption and reflection, how humans see color, how vision evolved, the sky, rainbows, colored gems, animal pigmentation, how animals use color to find mates and to protect themselves, and the use of color in human religion, ritual, design, navigation, communication, and personal identity.
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