Gotz Hoeppe

Gebundenes Buch

Why the Sky Is Blue

Discovering the Color of Life

Beschreibung

Why is the sky blue? Parents don'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.

Autor

Gotz Hoeppe is an editor of the popular German science magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" and a lecturer in social anthropology at Heidelberg University. He is the author of "Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 169mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780691124537
• ISBN-10: 0691124531
• Artikelnr.: 22576338