Atmospheric Optics

First English language edition, first printing.  vi, 178pp, in printed light card covers.  4to.  Covers a little rubbed and scuffed on edges and corners, with slightly soiling in places, lower leading corner slightly lifting.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

A curated collection of scientific essays and papers presented  by largely soviet scientists to a conference on the physical properties of the Earth’s atmosphere and how light penetrates through it,  in Pulkovo, USSR in 1968, here translated into English.  The volume consolidates soviet era research in critical fields of optical science such as light scattering, twilight phenomena, atmospheric transparency and astronomical climatology, Its publication in English in the West reflects a strategic effort by the Western powers to close the ‘information gap’ during the height of the cold war.