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“This delightful combination of science and history should be required reading for poets, pilots, artists, weather watchers, and anyone who ever marveled at the manifest colors of the sky or wondered why it is only sometimes ‘blue.'”–James Rodger Fleming, Colby College “An absorbing study of historical approaches to the everyday fact of the blue sky above us, G?tz Hoeppe’s “Why the Sky is Blue” is full of revelations. The story it tells of the sky’s appearance as an issue of speculation and investigation will appeal both to the specialist and the general reader.”–Eileen Reeves, author of “Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo” Praise for the original German edition: “In this richly illustrated volume, the author describes and explains the color and appearance of the firmament, from earlier times to the current day. It is an exciting excursion from mythology, art, and philosophy up through modern science.”–“Die Welt” Praise for the original German edition: “This is a multilayered book that makes a seemingly commonplace observation the starting point of an exciting journey of discovery . . . The color of the sky proves to be the key to understanding many of our cultural achievements in science, art and everyday life.”–NDR 1’s “B?cherwelt” Praise for the original German edition: “Hoeppe has succeeded in something completely special: the book combines the research of the natural sciences with philosophical and cultural reflections-all elegantly expressed.”–Saarl?ndischer Rundfunk
