On the Surface of Things
Subtitle: Images of the Extraordinary in Science
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780674026889
Subjects: Science: General Issues; Special kinds of photography; History; Science; History: World; Central Europe; Western Continental Europe; Photoessays & Documentaries; Physics; Solid State Physics; Science / Physics; Europe - Austria & Hungary; Modern - 20th Century; Western Europe - General
Description: Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.