Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics

by Stephen R Wilk and Stephen R. Wilk

Why are candle flames yellow? Why does ultraviolet light supposedly kill vampires? What about the monocle? Why was the monocle--a corrective lens that only corrects vision in a single eye--so popular among businessmen and politicians for so many years? Stephen R. Wilk answers all this and so much more in Sandbows and Black Lights.

This book is a collection of original essays on weird and unusual topics surrounding optics. Wilk uses the BBC's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197518575
• ISBN13: 9780197518571
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"