A Natural History of Color, Rob DeSalle
A Natural History of Color, Rob DeSalle
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A Natural History of Color
The Science Behind What We See and How We See it

Author: Rob DeSalle, Hans Bachor

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see. The experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, and so on have created a vivid and vibrant continuum. These ways of representing reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it? Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe, and considering it as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, and even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine-tuned understanding of it are vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.

About George Newbern

George Newbern has appeared in Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Evening Star, Adventures in Babysitting, and many other films. On television, he has had roles on Scandal, Friends, Nip/Tuck, Hot in Cleveland, CSI, and more. He is also known for providing the voice of Superman in Justice League and for narrating audiobooks.

About Rob DeSalle

Rob DeSalle is a curator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and a professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author or coauthor of several books including The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World and Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You.

About Hans Bachor

Hans Bachor is the co-author of A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics and A Natural History of Color. An emeritus professor at The Australian National University, he pioneered experimental quantum optics and resides in Canberra, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on October 31, 2021

Not what I expected from the blurb. It delves deeper into the how we perceive color than I expected. Sure, I wanted to know the mechanics, but not the names of the many genes that give them to a biological structure. That was too much & just confused the issue for me. The explanations of the differe......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on January 26, 2024

Written by a museum curator, was an interesting mix of natural history/genetics/evolution and cultural history. I learned a lot. written for a more technical audience.......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on May 26, 2023

A thorough and exacting look at the physics of light and biology of color perception, with a particular focus on the biochemical pathways that actually carry out the job of detection and recognition. While some acronym-filled discussions can become hard to follow, the authors do largely manage to ma......more

Goodreads review by Joan on January 18, 2023

a new favorite author! i'm on chapter 4... like many reviews, i must say it is not what i expected; unlike those reviews, i say it exceeded my expectations. so happy to see that there are more books by lasalle... done! the final chapter threw me for a loop. not my cup of tea, but it says a lot about the......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 29, 2021

You may enjoy "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it." Not as insightful as I would have liked but still very interesting in parts. You'll learn some things, but you'll feel like a lot is left to seek out.......more

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