Vision Through the Atmosphere / / W.E.K. Middleton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Middleton, W.E.K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1952
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; TABLES --; TABLE OF NOTATION --; CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER TWO. ELEMENTARY PHOTOMETRIC THEORY --; CHAPTER THREE. THE EXTINCTION OF LIGHT IN THE ATMOSPHERE --; CHAPTER FOUR. THE ALTERATION OF CONTRAST BY THE ATMOSPHERE --; CHAPTER FIVE. THE RELEVANT PROPERTIES OF THE EYE --; CHAPTER SIX. THE VISUAL RANGE OF OBJECTS IN NATURAL LIGHT --; CHAPTER SEVEN. VISUAL RANGE OF LIGHT SOURCES AND OF OBJECTS ILLUMINATED BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT --; CHAPTER EIGHT. THE COLORS OF DISTANT OBJECTS, AND THE VISUAL RANGE OF COLORED OBJECTS --; CHAPTER NINE. INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING VISUAL RANGE AND RELATED QUANTITIES --; CHAPTER TEN. THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF THE METEOROLOGIST --; CHAPTER ELEVEN. A NEW VISUAL SCIENCE-CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487586140; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487586140
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: W.E.K. Middleton.

In recent years, the problem of seeing through the atmosphere has been given intensive and costly consideration in several quarters, but particularly in the Untied States and Great Britain. A problem which once concerned mainly the meteorologists has become of great importance in military tactics as well as in peacetime transportation.The present volume is the only full account in English of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors which lie at the basis of the calculation of the range of vision through the atmosphere. There is an extended chapter on instruments and one on the author's own theory of the colours of distant objects. The figures are from many sources althrough many of them have been drawn specially for this book. The bibliography contains 420 entries nearly all of which are directly referred to in the text.