The Snowflake

Kenneth Libbrecht

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781627887335

Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but youve never seen them like this! A collection of amazing photography of snow crystals using a unique system designed to take super-detailed micro images of these miniature ice masterpieces, "The Snowflake" is an extraordinary look at a seemingly ordinary object. Author Kenneth Libbrecht, a physics professor at Caltech and the pre-eminent snow-crystal researcher, discusses the physics and mythology of snow and how snow crystals are made. Photographer Patricia Rasmussen presents remarkable color micro-photography of snowflakes, and also discusses the history of snow-crystal micro-photography as invented by farmer Wilson Bentley.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• One | Winter’s Frozen Artistry
• Two | Snowflake Watching
• Three | A Field Guide to Falling Snow
• Four | Snowflake Weather
• Five | Snow Crystal Symmetry
• Six | Morphogenesis on Ice
• Seven | Designer Snowflakes
• Eight | Snowflake Photography
• Epilogue
• Index
• About the Authors
• Dedication
• Copyright