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1998. See also J. H. Poynting, The wave motion of a revolving shaft, and a suggestion as
to the angular momentum in a beam of circularly polarised light, Proceedings of the Royal
Society London A82, pp. 560–567, 1908. Cited on page 120.
78 The photographs are from P. H. Jones, F. Palmisano, F. Bonaccorso,
P. G. Gucciardi, G. Calogero, A. C. Ferrari & O. M. Marago, Rotation detection
in light-driven nanorotors, ACS Nano 3, pp. 3077–3084, 2009. Cited on pages 120
and 391.
79 A. Valenzuela, G. Haerendel, H. Föppl, F. Melzner, H. Neuss, E. Rieger,
J. Stöcker, O. Bauer, H. Höfner & J. Loidl, The AMPTE artificial comet experiments,
Nature320, pp. 700–703, 1986. Cited on page 120.
80 See the Latin text by Dietrich von Freiberg, De iride et radialibus impressionibus,
c. 1315. Cited on page 122.
81 J. Walker, Multiple rainbows from single drops of water and other liquids, American
Journal of Physics44, pp. 421–433, 1976, and hisHowtocreateandobserveadozenrainbows
in a single drop of water, Scientific American 237, pp. 138–144, 1977. See also K. Sassen,
Angular scattering and rainbowformation in pendant drops, Journal of the Optical Society
of America69, pp. 1083–1089, 1979. A beautiful paper with the formulae of the angles of all
rainbows is E. Willerding, Zur Theorie von Regenbögen, Glorien und Halos, 2003, preprint
on the internet. It also provides sources for programs that allow to simulate rainbows
on a personal computer. Cited on page 122.
82 There are also other ways to see the green ray, for longer times, namely when a mirage
appears at sunset. An explanation with colour photograph is contained in M. Vollmer,
Gespiegelt in besonderen Düften ...– Oasen, Seeungeheuer und weitere Spielereien der Fata
Morgana, Physikalische Blätter54, pp. 903–909, 1998. Cited on page 122.
83 The resulting colouring of the Sun’s rim is shown clearly on Andrew Young’s web page
mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/simulations/std/rims.html. His website mintaka.sdsu.edu/
GF offers the best explanation of the green flash, including the various types that exist (explained
at mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/papers/Zenit/glance.html), how to observe it, and the numerous
physical effects involved. Detailed simulations and extensive material is available.
See also his paper A. T. Young, Sunset science – III. Visual adaptation and green flashes,
Journal of the Optical Society of America A 17, pp. 2129–2139, 2000. Cited on pages 122
and 123.
84 See the wonderful website by Les Cowley on atmospheric optics, www.atoptics.co.uk.
Or the book David K. Lynch & William Livingston, Color and Light in Nature,
second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2001. They updated and expanded the fascination
for colours in nature – such as, for example, the halos around the Moon and
the Sun, or the colour of shadows – that was started by the beautiful and classic book
by already mentioned earlier on: Marcel G. J. Minnaert, Light and Colour in the
Outdoors, Springer, 1993, an updated version based on the wonderful original book series
Marcel G. J. Minnaert, De natuurkunde van ‘t vrije veld, Thieme & Cie, 1937. Cited
on page 123.
85 About the colour of the ozone layer seen at dawn and the colour of the sky in general,
see G. Hoeppe, Die blaue Stunde des Ozons, Sterne und Weltraum pp. 632–639, August
2001, and also his extensive book Götz Hoeppe, Blau: Die Farbe des Himmels,
Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 1999, also available in English as the extended revision
Götz Hoeppe, Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life, Princeton University
Press, 2007,This beautiful text also tells why bacteria were essential to produce the colour
of the sky. Cited on page 123.
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