Microwave receivers: edited by S. N. Van Voorhis. 618 pages, 16 × 23 cm., tables, drawings and illustrations. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1948. Price, $8.00

✍ Scribed by Robert S Grubmeyer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1949
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 247
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(49)90914-x

✦ Synopsis

problems of selective transmission and reflection for the cases of glass, filters, metal surfaces, and multi-layers.

Color vision is introduced through a study of the physiology of the eye and a discussion of reaction of the eye to different colors. The standard systems of color description are oufllned: for the case of the so-called mental variables, hue, saturation and brightness, as worked out by the Munsell System; for the more accurate description, in terms of the ICI primaries and the ICI color triangle; and the less commonly used Ostwaldsystem. Applications to illumination, color mixing, paints and pigments, photography, painting, design and abstraction are considered.

The book could readily be subtitled "The Magic of Light and Colors." It should be useful to architects, lighting consultants, interior decorators, stage directors, stage set designers, stage lighting constiltants, and even the housewife who is interested in a better and fuller living through the medium of color.

S. CHARP.