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Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

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"Informative and entertaining...Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill." —Wall Street Journal


A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, with a new afterword by the author


From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights required millennia of remarkable inn...