Cover of Sky in a bottle

Sky in a bottle

by Peter Pesic

2005 262 pages eng

"Children ask, "Why is the sky blue?" but the question also puzzled Plato, Leonardo, and even Newton, who unlocked so many other secrets. The search for an answer continued for centuries; in 1862 Sir John Herschel listed the color and polarization of sky light as "the two great standing enigmas of m…

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