num_pages: 112
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Snowflake : Winter's Secret Beauty
titlecomplete: The Snowflake : Winter's Secret Beauty
genres: Reference, Nature, Picture Books, Science, Nonfiction, Adult, Christmas, Art, Photography
ratings_count: 304
publisher: Colin Baxter