How blue…?

Saw this on Sandra Donabed’s Blog and couldn’t resist it… it’s everything I need – color chart or wheel, blue, sky, attempt to make sense of it all… just give it over here! She wrote:

We’re talking values here, values of cyan. An 18th century instrument designed to measure the blueness of the sky called a Cyanometer. The simple device was invented in 1789 by Swiss physicist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who used the circular array of 53 shaded sections in experiments above the skies over Geneva, Chamonix and Mont Blanc.

cyanometer

cyanometer
measuring the sky’s blueness
blue beyond naming

cyanometer
measuring the range of sky
blue beyond naming

measure it, name it
hang the sky on cloudy wall
cyanometer

measuring the sky
tease out all the colors blue
hang it on my wall.

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One Response to How blue…?

  1. betty frezon says:

    That is amazing.

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