Full Spectrum: How The Science of Color Made Us Modern
Just finished reading "Full Spectrum: How The Science of Color Made Us Modern" by Adam Rogers, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books.
As frequent readers of my reviews here on Facebook, Goodreads, and other Social Media outlets know, I automatically deduct two points on a review when a book, movie, audio play, or other form of entertainment goes Woke. Which is a pity, because Rogers wrote an excellent book about how advances in the manufacturing of natural and artificial colors impacted the development and grown of modern culture and society - even leading to some rather interesting industrial espionage cases.
Instead for some reason Rogers decides to devote a few sentences to how Sir Isaac Newton is a typical evil White man who used a prism to break down the true nature of light and received credit for it when the real credit should have gone to the Arab philosophers who came up with the theory of light being actually composed of different colors a few centuries before, but didn't provide the actual proof like Newton did. Then he goes on to cover Newton's work on color and perception. I guess Rogers was under some sort of obligation to have some Woke nonsense in his book. - which is odd because Roger's is a White man chronicling the history of a White man he obviously dislikes for being a White man who is remembered in history for a discovery he made. Wokism can cause a migraine if you think about it.
Rogers wrote an excellent history of color in modern times, but he ruined it through the lens of Wokeness.
Three Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Full-Spectrum-...
As frequent readers of my reviews here on Facebook, Goodreads, and other Social Media outlets know, I automatically deduct two points on a review when a book, movie, audio play, or other form of entertainment goes Woke. Which is a pity, because Rogers wrote an excellent book about how advances in the manufacturing of natural and artificial colors impacted the development and grown of modern culture and society - even leading to some rather interesting industrial espionage cases.
Instead for some reason Rogers decides to devote a few sentences to how Sir Isaac Newton is a typical evil White man who used a prism to break down the true nature of light and received credit for it when the real credit should have gone to the Arab philosophers who came up with the theory of light being actually composed of different colors a few centuries before, but didn't provide the actual proof like Newton did. Then he goes on to cover Newton's work on color and perception. I guess Rogers was under some sort of obligation to have some Woke nonsense in his book. - which is odd because Roger's is a White man chronicling the history of a White man he obviously dislikes for being a White man who is remembered in history for a discovery he made. Wokism can cause a migraine if you think about it.
Rogers wrote an excellent history of color in modern times, but he ruined it through the lens of Wokeness.
Three Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Full-Spectrum-...
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