Do Colors Exist

Author : Seth Stannard Cottrell
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319643618

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Do Colors Exist? by Seth Stannard Cottrell Pdf

Why do polished stones look wet? How does the Twin Paradox work? What if Jupiter were a star? How can we be sure that pi never repeats? How does a quantum computer break encryption? Discover the answers to these, and other profound physics questions! This fascinating book presents a collection of articles based on conversations and correspondences between the author and complete strangers about physics and math. The author, a researcher in mathematical physics, responds to dozens of questions posed by inquiring minds from all over the world, ranging from the everyday to the profound. Rather than unnecessarily complex explanations mired in mysterious terminology and symbols, the reader is presented with the reasoning, experiments, and mathematics in a casual, conversational, and often comical style. Neither over-simplified nor over-technical, the lucid and entertaining writing will guide the reader from each innocent question to a better understanding of the weird and beautiful universe around us. Advance praise for Do Colors Exist?: “Every high school science teacher should have a copy of this book. The individual articles offer enrichment to those students who wish to go beyond a typical ‘dry curriculum’. The articles are very fun. I probably laughed out loud every 2-3 minutes. This is not easy to do. In fact, my children are interested in the book because they heard me laughing so much.” – Ken Ono, Emory University

Author : Optical Society of America. Committee on Colorimetry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Color
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033295077

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The Science of Color by Optical Society of America. Committee on Colorimetry Pdf

Author : Marge Piercy
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307517944

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Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy Pdf

In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world around her, bidding an exhausted farewell to the twentieth century and singing an "electronic breakdown blues" for the twenty-first. She memorializes movingly those who, like los desaparecidos and the victims of 9/11, disappear suddenly and without a trace. She writes an elegy for her mother, a woman who struggled with a deadening round o fhousework, washin gon Monday, ironing on Tuesday, and so on, "until stroke broke/her open." She remembers the scraps of lace, the touch of velvet, that were part of her maternal inheritance and fist aroused her sensual curiosity. Here are paeans to the pleasures of the natural world (rosy ripe tomatoes, a mating dance of hawks) as the poet confronts her own mortality in the cycle of seasons and the eternity of the cosmos: "iam hurrying, I am running hard / toward I don't know what, / but I mean to arrive before dark." Other poems--about her grandmother's passage from Russia to the New World, or the interrupting of a Passover seder to watch a comet pass--expand on Piercy's appreciation of Jewish life that won her so much acclaim in The Art of Blessing the Day. Colors Passing Through Us is a moving celebration of the endurance of love an dof the phenomenon of life itself--a book to treasure.

Author : Kassia St Clair
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Color
ISBN : 1473630835

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The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acidyellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, TheSecret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.

Author : M. Chirimuuta
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262029087

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Outside Color by M. Chirimuuta Pdf

Draws on contemporary perceptual science to address metaphysical questions about color.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer,Philipp Otto Runge
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616890056

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On Vision and Colors; Color Sphere by Arthur Schopenhauer,Philipp Otto Runge Pdf

During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, two of the most significant theoretical works on color since Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura were written and published in Germany: Arthur Schopenhauer's On Vision and Colors and Philipp Otto Runge's Color Sphere. For Schopenhauer, vision is wholly subjective in nature and characterized by processes that cross over into the territory of philosophy. Runge's Color Sphere and essay "The Duality of Color" contained one of the first attempts to depict a comprehensive and harmonious color system in three dimensions. Runge intended his color sphere to be understood not as a product of art, but rather as a "mathematical figure of various philosophical reflections." By bringing these two visionary color theories together within a broad theoretical context—philosophy, art, architecture, and design—this volume uncovers their enduring influence on our own perception of color and the visual world around us.

Author : Keith Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198755364

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A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour by Keith Allen Pdf

'A Naïve Realist Theory of Colour' defends the view that colours are mind-independent properties of things in the environment. Keith Allen argues that a naïve realist theory of colour best explains how colours appear to perceiving subjects, and that this view is not undermined by our modern scientific understanding of the world.

Author : Josef Albers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300179354

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Interaction of Color by Josef Albers Pdf

An experimental approach to the study and teaching of color is comprised of exercises in seeing color action and feeling color relatedness before arriving at color theory.

Author : Andrew Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Color in nature
ISBN : 0565093991

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Seven Deadly Colours by Andrew Parker Pdf

Taking the colours of the spectrum as his keys to the natural world, Andrew Parker shows that nature's palette is a far more miraculous thing than we had previously imagined. With fascinating examples of how colour has affected flora and fauna in different environments across the globe.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 0879755733

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Science, Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner Pdf

In this lively collection, Gardner examines the rich and hilarious variety of pseudoscientific conjectures that dominate the media today. With a special emphasis on parapsychology and occultism, these witty pieces address the evidence put forth to support claims of ESP, psychokinesis, faith healing, and other pseudoscience.

Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780756647582

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Eyewitness Companions: Philosophy by Stephen Law Pdf

Covering not only the history of Western thought, but also the traditions of Eastern philosophy and schools of thought from the Indian subcontinent, Eyewitness Companions: Philosophy combines philosophical analysis with historical and biographical information to explain and explore the major issues, theories, and problems at the heart of all philosophies. Eyewitness Companions: Philosophy combines metaphysics, epistemology, logic, the philosophy of religion, andethics Introduces the metaphors, analogies, and stories philosophers use to explain theories.

Author : Barry Stroud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198034644

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The Quest for Reality by Barry Stroud Pdf

We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human perceptions and the conditions under which we see things? Distinguished scholar Barry Stroud investigates these and related questions in The Quest for Reality. In this long-awaited book, he examines what a person would have to do and believe in order to reach the conclusion that everyone's perceptions and beliefs about the color of things are "illusions" and do not accurately represent the way things are in the world as it is independently of us. Arguing that no such conclusion could be consistently reached, Stroud finds that the conditions of a successful unmasking of color cannot all be fulfilled. The discussion extends beyond color to present a serious challenge to many other philosophical attempts to discover the way things really are. A model of subtle, elegant, and rigorous philosophical writing, this study will attract a wide audience from all areas of philosophy.

Author : Michel Pastoureau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691978864

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Black by Michel Pastoureau Pdf

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture—from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, Michel Pastoureau tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury. Black took on new meanings for early modern Europeans as they began to print words and images in black and white, and to absorb Isaac Newton's announcement that black was no color after all. During the romantic period, black was melancholy's friend, while in the twentieth century black (and white) came to dominate art, print, photography, and film, and was finally restored to the status of a true color. For Pastoureau, the history of any color must be a social history first because it is societies that give colors everything from their changing names to their changing meanings—and black is exemplary in this regard. In dyes, fabrics, and clothing, and in painting and other art works, black has always been a forceful—and ambivalent—shaper of social, symbolic, and ideological meaning in European societies. With its striking design and compelling text, Black will delight anyone who is interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design.

Author : Brent Berlin,Paul Kay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520076354

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Basic Color Terms by Brent Berlin,Paul Kay Pdf

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

Author : Vitaly Komar,Aleksandr Melamid
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9780520218611

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Painting by Numbers by Vitaly Komar,Aleksandr Melamid Pdf

This book complements a national traveling exhibition of Komar and Melamid's interpretation of the "most wanted' and "most unwanted" paintings of fourteen countries titled: The People's Choice, organized and circulated by ICI - Independant Curators International, touring to museums from September 1998 to December 2000.