Colour / Hazel Rossotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossotti, Hazel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color.

Medical Subjects:

Color.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Princeton University Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1985, c1983.

Summary:

Why do pebbles look brighter when wet? Is there a "right" order in which to arrange a set of crayons? Are blue rooms really "cold"? Why do some clothes change colour when ironed? What are the colours you see when you press your eyes? To answer these and other questions, Hazel Rossotti uses scientific basics-matter, energy, and eye structure-to discuss the colours of the natural world, the mechanism of colour vision, and a range of colour technology from ceramics to television. She includes a fascinating discussion of the uses of colour, both "prosaic" (as for camouflage, signalling, and symbolism) and "poetic" (for conveying mood in art and language). Dealing with subjects from refraction to rainbows, chlorophyll to colour blindness, this book will appeal both to the general reader and to the scientist.

Contents:

Part 1 Light and Dark

1 Light Particles 19

2 White Light on Clear Glass 26

Part 2 Lights and Colours

3 Steady Colours 37

4 Shimmering Colours 44

5 Special Effects 48

6 Lights 55

Part 3 The Natural World

7 Air and Water 65

8 Earth and Fire 77

9 Vegetable Colours 84

10 The Colours of Animals 91

Part 4 Sensations of Colour

11 Light and the Eye 109

12 Anomalous Colour Vision 122

13 Colour Vision in Animals 126

14 The Eye and the Brain 130

15 Sorting and Recording 143

Part 5 Technology

16 Colour Reproduction 169

17 Added Colour 185

Part 6 Uses and Links

18 Imparting Information 203

19 Communicating Feelings 209

20 Colour, Music and Movement 220

21 Words and Colours 222.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

069108369X

0691023867

OCLC:

12644734