by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut
New Book Area, call number: QC 495.3 E25 2013.
If color is a secret language of Nature, as one of the reviewer of this book stated, than what we see is the many translations of this language by Science, History, Culture, Sociology and other scientific fields.
This wonderful book explains the physics and chemistry of colors first, and then assigns a chapter to the primary and secondary colors, along with the Universe, and the objects that form it, at least in our neighborhood, the Earth, plants animals and humans. The chapters wave an interesting story explaining the history, art, culture, geology, chemistry, etc. of our world.
We can learn why saffron is the most expensive spice on Earth and how it is harvested, or where the term “blue blood’ comes from. We learn about the importance of chlorophyll, why and how can a butterfly see more colors than a human (and why a bat is living in a world of shades of grays and black), skin tone names from Brazil, colorblindness, palettes through times and countries and many many more interesting tidbits. The book is rich in color illustrations and photos.
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Review by Erika Prange, SWC Librarian
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