#cyanometer

[cosmonautroger]

cyanometer

[referencetaurus]

Maison Margiela F26 RTW

[celestialmazer]

"A cyanometer (from cyan and -meter) is an instrument for measuring "blueness", specifically the colour intensity of blue sky. It is attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt. It consists of squares of paper dyed in graduated shades of blue and arranged in a color circle or square that can be held up and compared to the color of the sky."

Cyanometer art work

A monument to the blueness of the sky

by Martin Bricelj Baraga - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Atlas Obscura article

Archimedes-lab.org article

Wikipedia

[fromthedust]

Cyanometer - an instrument for measuring blueness, specifically the color intensity of blue sky - attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt

[godwantsit]

[chronosfear]

Do you love the circles of the sky????

[explore-blog]

“Where is my cyanometer,” Thoreau exclaimed in his journal on a blue-skied spring day, referring to the curious device invented by the Swiss scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure a century earlier to measure the blueness of the sky. 

Here are some of the most beautiful meditations on blue from 200 years of literature, including Thoreau, Goethe, Toni Morrison, Rachel Carson, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca Solnit, Georgia O'Keeffe, and other titans of the world in words.

[thethirdbear]