Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $10.04, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd Mead.
Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $10.04, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd Mead.
Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $13.49, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Ruby rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $22.00, very good condition, Sold by J. Hood, Booksellers, Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Baldwin City, KS, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $25.95, very good condition, Sold by Michael Patrick McCarty, Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New Castle, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 11x8x1; Some edgewear to dustjacket. A remarkable aspect of this book is its combination of art and science. The author, an accomplished professional artist in the field of natural history, particularly in drawings of birds and insects, is the daughter of a scientist who specialized in optics and was an authority on light interference, the optical phenomenon which plays an important role here. It was this background which enabled the author to approach the subject in a refreshingly original way. What makes a blue bird blue? Why is its color fundamentally different from that of a red bird? What causes the iridescence of a hummingbird's throat? of a peacock's train? of a Morpho butterfly's wings? Why do so many brightly colored birds in museum collections soon fade to a dim washed-out hue, while the hummingbird and the peacock retain their brilliance almost indefinitely? Here we touch on the fundamental difference between structural and pigmentary, physical and chemical colors-a difference which is the main theme of this book-and the various ways in which these structural colors are produced in the tissues of living beings. Also unusual are the means and method of illustration and reproduction. Most illustrators desiring colored reproductions of their art paint colored pictures, and then turn these paintings over to the engraver or lithographer, who uses elaborate cameras with filters to separate the colors so that they can be printed in different inks. Instead of relying on mechanical filters, Hilda Simon translates in her mind each color into the percentages of its component colors. She then prepares in black pencil one separation for each of the four or five colors used in her illustrators. The results are astonishing and original. She has captured some of the most elusive colors as no other process can. Here are to be found, in scientific analysis and microscopic detail of feather structure as well as in all their glory, birds of all sorts from hummingbirds and sunbirds to peacocks, the fabled birds of Juno, and birds of paradise. Here we see the quetzal, symbol of ancient Aztec royalty and emblem of modern Guatemala. Here is a glittering array of iridescent tropical butterflies and moths, golden beetles that gleam like living embers, multicolored fish, shimmering opalescent shells, and even rainbow-hued snakes.
Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $28.00, very good condition, Sold by Abstract Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Indianapolis, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd, Mead and Company.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book 267 pages, numerous illustrations, most in color, biographical notes, select bibliography, index; 4to, green cloth. Near fine, spine ends slightly bumped; dust jacket very good-, slightly rubbed, edge wear.
Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence. Structural Colors in the to cart. $29.00, like new condition, Sold by Bookmine rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fair Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Fine copy in very good (light edge wear) dust jacket (in mylar). Folio. 268 pps. Illustrated in color and black & white. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.
Add this copy of The Splender of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $32.00, good condition, Sold by Sapsucker Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Grafton, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd Mead.
Add this copy of The Splender of Iridescence: Structural Colors in the to cart. $39.00, very good condition, Sold by Sapsucker Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Grafton, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Dodd Mead.
Add this copy of The Splendor of Iridescence: Structural Colors in to cart. $66.50, very good condition, Sold by DBookmahn's Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Burke, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. The author/illustrator/scientist skillfully conveys the wonderous quality of iridescent coloring on birds, fish and insects (we mammals lost out). Extensively illustrated with Simons graceful colored drawings. 268 pages. Corners bumped.
