Rainbows

Nature and Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

369 kr

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The rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature – a rare bridge between subjective experience and objective reality – and no less remarkable as a cultural phenomenon. Daniel MacCannell’s enlightening, instructive and beautifully illustrated guide to the rainbow is the first of its kind. It describes what rainbows are and how they work, how we arrived at our current scientific understanding of rainbows, and how they have been portrayed in myths, the arts, politics and popular culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-04-16
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEarth
Antal sidor208
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781780239200

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Rainbows, often depicted as a simple arc of six or seven colors, are complex visual phenomena that have fascinated humans since ancient times. In this nicely illustrated guide, historian Daniel MacCannell starts off with a brief chapter describing the science behind rainbows and their many different manifestations. He moves on to deeper discussions of the history of their scientific study and of their mythic, artistic, cultural, and political significance.