Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern - Softcover

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<div><b>&#34;Informative and entertaining...Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill.&#34;&#160;&#8212;<i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><b>A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the best-selling author of <i>Proof: The Science of Booze</i></b><br><br> From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven&#8217;t always matched nature&#8217;s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights required millennia of remarkable innovation and a fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that&#8217;s allowed for the most luminous manifestations of our built and adorned world.<br> &#160;<br> In <i>Full Spectrum</i>, Rogers takes us on that globe-trotting journey, tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future.&#160;We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk Road merchants competing for the best ceramics, and textile artists cracking the centuries-old mystery of how colors mix, before shooting to the modern era for high-stakes corporate espionage and the digital revolution that&#8217;s rewriting the rules of color forever.&#160;<br> &#160;<br> In prose as vibrant as its subject, Rogers opens the door to Oz, sharing the liveliest events of an expansive human quest&#8212;to make a brighter, more beautiful world&#8212;and along the way, proving why he&#8217;s &#8220;one of the best science writers around.&#8221;*<br> *<i>National Geographic</i></div>

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