This book is available to read until 21st April, 2026
- 156 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The perfect geometry and exquisite beauty of nature is nowhere so clear to us as in the snowflake. But how have we been able to appreciate this infinitesimal wonder in all its crystalline glory? This book, as much a work of art as a testament to science, reveals how one of the snowflake’s most inspired photographers came to such intimate knowledge of his craft and its fleeting focus. Beautiful pictures illustrate Kenneth Libbrecht’s story of the microphotography of snow crystals, from the pioneering work of Wilson Bentley in the 1890s right up to Ken’s own innovations in our age of digital images. A breathtaking look at the works of art that melt in an instant, this is a book to page through and savor, season after season.
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Information
Publisher
Voyageur PressYear
2007Print ISBN
9780760329979eBook ISBN
9781616731243Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Winter’s Secret Beauty
- The Wonder of Snowflakes
- Simple Plates and Prisms
- Columns and Needles
- Capped Columns
- Sectored Plates
- Stellar Plates and Stellar Dendrites
- Triangular Crystals
- Twelve-branched Snowflakes
- Rime and Graupel
- Double Plates
- Split Plates and Split Stars
- Evaporation and Melting
- About the Author
- About the Photographs
- Copyright Page