Joann Eckstut

In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which colour colours our world. Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these questions, nor are we aware that colour pervades nearly all aspects of life, from the subatomic...

Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color. Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields—physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology—this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real...