Full Spectrum How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
eBook - 2021
"Informative and entertaining...Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill." —Wall Street JournalA lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the best-selling author of Proof: The Science of Booze From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights required millennia of remarkable innovation and a fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that’s allowed for the most luminous manifestations of our built and adorned world. In Full Spectrum, Rogers takes us on that globe-trotting... journey, tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future. We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk...
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HarperCollins
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- English
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File Size | 15 GB |
ISBN | 9781328519146 |
Release Date | 4/16/2024 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B08B3HPN2X |
Release Date | 4/16/2024 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781328519146 |
Release Date | 4/16/2024 |