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Light and Dark - An exploration in science, nature, art and technology (Paperback)
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Light and Dark - An exploration in science, nature, art and technology (Paperback)
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An entertaining, instructive, diverse, and unusual book, Light and
Dark: An Exploration in Science, Nature, Art and Technology
encompasses a wide range of topics not normally found in one
book.
With more than 100 diagrams, graphs, and figures, the subjects
discussed include the history of artificial lighting, eclipse
cycles, light-sensitive eyeglasses, rainbows, art, bioluminescence,
the clock setting at the South Pole, zebra stripe patterns,
lighthouses, color perception, the harvest moon, and how
information and speech can be conveyed by light from the sun or a
laser.
The book encourages readers to take a more careful look at many
familiar phenomena, such as the variations in the duration of
twilight through the year and the ability of human vision to
misinterpret patterns of lines under certain conditions. It
describes the anatomical peculiarities of four-eyed fish and
explains how the Jewish calendar contrives to follow both solar and
lunar cycles. It also presents the reasons why tortoise shell cats
are almost always female. Readers are informed where they can see
19th century military equipment that could convey messages rapidly
over vast differences.
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