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    The secret language of color : science, nature, history, culture, beauty of red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet / Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut.

    By: Eckstut, JoannContributor(s): Eckstut, ArielleMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Publishing Company, [2013]Description: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781579129491; 1579129498; 9781603763523; 160376352XSubject(s): Color -- Popular works | Color | Color | Farbe | Farbe | Farbenlehre | FarbstoffGenre/Form: Popular worksDDC classification: 535.6 LOC classification: QC495.3 | .E25 2013
    Contents:
    Physics and chemistry -- Red -- Universe -- Orange -- Earth -- Yellow -- Plants -- Green -- Animals -- Blue -- Humans -- Violet.
    Summary: 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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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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