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Snow Crystals [Dover Pictorial Archive]

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Item specifics

Condition
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ISBN
9780486202877
Book Title
Snow Crystals
Book Series
Dover Pictorial Archive Ser.
Item Length
11 in
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication Year
1962
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
W. A. Bentley, W. J. Humphreys
Genre
Photography, Design, Science
Topic
Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Clip Art, Subjects & Themes / Historical
Item Width
8.3 in
Item Weight
27.7 Oz
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Product Information

Offers valuable material not only to students of crystallography but also to those of the arts. -- The New York Times Did you ever try to photograph a snowflake? The procedure is very tricky. The work must be done rapidly in extreme cold, for even body heat can melt a rare specimen that has been painstakingly mounted. The lighting must be just right to reveal all the nuances of design without producing heat. But the results can be rewarding, as the work of W. A. Bentley proved. For almost half a century, Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. In 1931, the American Meteorological Society gathered together the best of these photomicrographs, plus some slides of frost, glaze, dew on vegetation and spider webs, sleet, and soft hail, and a text by W. J. Humphreys, and had them published. That book is here reproduced, unaltered, and unabridged. Over 2,000 beautiful crystals on these pages reveal the wonder of nature's diversity in uniformity; no two are alike, yet all are based on a common hexagon. The introductory text covers the technique of photographing snow crystals, classification, the fundamentals of crystallography, and markings. There are also brief discussions of the nature and cause of ice flowers, windowpane frost, dew, rime, sleet, and graupel. The book is of great value both to students of ice forms and for textile and other designers who can use the natural designs of these snow crystals in their work. Every photograph is royalty-free; you may use up to 10 without fees, permission, or acknowledgement. A most unusual and very readable book. -- Nature

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486202879
ISBN-13
9780486202877
eBay Product ID (ePID)
171889

Product Key Features

Book Title
Snow Crystals
Author
W. A. Bentley, W. J. Humphreys
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Clip Art, Subjects & Themes / Historical
Book Series
Dover Pictorial Archive Ser.
Publication Year
1962
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Design, Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Item Weight
27.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qc929.S7b4
Table of Content
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART I THE SNOW CRYSTAL HISTORY TAKING THE SNOW CRYSTAL'S PICTURE SOME FACTS OF OBSERVATION CLASSIFICATION CIRCUMSTANCES OF OCCURRENCE MARKINGS SHAPES OF CAVITIES PARASITIC CRYSTALS PICTURE CRYSTALS CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF THE SNOW CRYSTAL PECULIAR CRYSTALS PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ICE CRYSTAL "PART II THE SNOWFLAKE'S CLOSEST OF KIN, AND ITS COUSIN, THE DEWDROP" ICE FLOWERS WINDOWPANE FROST DEW AND FROST RIME GLAZE SLEET GRAUPEL
Copyright Date
1962
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
551.57
Dewey Edition
21

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  • Snowflakes Examined

    Unique book with information that isn't common knowledge. Considering when it was written, it shows how advanced our technology is today.

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  • Snow Crystals

    This is one fantastic work on the intricacies and designs of snow crystals. There is only one thing that I would like to see and that is for some snow crystals to be enlarged so that you can see even clearer the design of the crystal. It is an excellent work for children to be able to comprehend the complex world of God's creation.

  • Snow Crystals by W A Bentley

    Excellent coffee table book with amazing pictures of snowflakes, page after page. It's truly inspiring to see so many different snowflakes and realize the time period the work was done. Beautiful.

  • Beautiful Snow Crystal Pictures.

    If you love snowflakes, you'll love this book. I use this book in my classroom. I used to check it out from the local library, but I liked it so much that I decided to buy it so I'll always have it.

  • Snow Crystals

    The book is wonderful. Just what I was looking for. I purchased it to expand my school library and enhance my unit on snowflakes.