Here's another note on false blues:
Karl Ernst von Baer, a popular
biologist/morphologist, who had moved to St. Petersburg and was active
there until 1876, was one of the first explorers to visit Nova Zembla.
Von Baer published two articles "Sketch of animal life in Nova Zembla"
and "On the recent Russian expeditions to Novaia Zemlia." The latter
emphasizes the colorlessness of the air that far North, pointing to the
unreliability of Kinbote, who emphasizes a very blue Zemblan sky.
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