Description
“Gives helpful subject material no longer simplest to scholars of crystallography but in addition to these of the humanities.” — The New York Times
Did you ever attempt to photograph a snowflake? The process could be very difficult. The paintings will have to be performed abruptly in excessive chilly, for even frame warmth can soften a unprecedented specimen that has been painstakingly fixed. The lights will have to be good to expose the entire nuances of layout with out generating warmth. However the effects may also be profitable, because the paintings of W. A. Bentley proved.
For virtually part a century, Bentley stuck and photographed lots of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made to be had to scientists and artwork teachers samples of his outstanding paintings. In 1931, the American Meteorological Society collected in combination the most efficient of those photomicrographs, plus a few slides of frost, glaze, dew on plants and spider webs, sleet, and cushy hail, and a textual content via W. J. Humphreys, and had them revealed. That e-book is right here reproduced, unaltered, and unabridged. Over 2,000 stunning crystals on those pages monitor the sweetness of nature’s range in uniformity; no are alike, but all are in line with a commonplace hexagon.
The introductory textual content covers the method of photographing snow crystals, class, the basics of crystallography, and markings. There also are transient discussions of the character and lead to of ice flora, windowpane frost, dew, rime, sleet, and graupel.
The e-book is of significant worth each to scholars of ice paperwork and for fabric and different designers who can use the herbal designs of those snow crystals of their paintings. Each photograph is royalty-unfastened; you may also use as much as 10 with out charges, permission, or acknowledgement.
“A so much strange and really readable e-book.” — Nature
