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List of Illustrations ix  List of Tables xvii  Acknowledgments xix  Prologue: Looking at the Sky 1  Chapter 1: Of Philosophers and the Color Blue 9  Chapter 2: A Blue Mixture: Light and Darkness 31  Chapter 3: Aerial Perspective 52  Chapter 4: A Color of the First Order 77  Chapter 5: Basic Phenomenon, or Optical Illusion? 108  Chapter 6: A Polarized Sky 131  Chapter 7: Lord Rayleigh's Scattering 169  Chapter 8: Molecular Reality 203  Chapter 9: Ozone's Blue Hour 235  Chapter 10: The Color of Life 261  Epilogue 289  Appendix A: Determining the Height of the Atmosphere from the Duration of Twilight 291  Appendix B: Blue Eyes as Turbid Media 293  Appendix C: A Simple Derivation of the Inverse Fourth Power Law 295  Appendix D: Atmospheric Extinction and Avogadro's Number 297  Notes 299  Further Reading 311  Index 325

xx, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Why is the sky blue? Parents don&#39;t know what to say when their children ask. This illustrated work answers this ancient and surprisingly complex question. It takes the reader on a historical and scientific journey to show the various ways people in different times and places have explained why the sky looks blue.

Why the sky is blue : discovering the color of life