Snowflake (eBook)

Winter's Frozen Artistry

Kenneth Libbrecht, Rachel Wing (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
144 Seiten
Voyageur Press (Verlag)
978-1-62788-733-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A chronicle of snow crystal creation from the Caltech physicist known as the world's leading snowflake expert and consultant for the movie Frozen.Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but you've 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."e;What better way to teach your children to truly appreciate the beauty of nature than them seeing snow with their own eyes and then going on this journey with The Snowflake: Winter's Frozen Artistry. Nothing else shows the miracle that is nature better than this book."e; -The Palmetto Queen blog

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 270 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 210 x 210 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Schlagworte: 6fold symmetry • closeup photographs • closeup photography • Cloud • clouds • crystal formation • crystals • Diffuse reflection • Droplet • droplets • Graupel • hexagon • Hexagonal • hexagonal column • hexagonal columns • hexagonal plates • hexagonal prism • hexagons • Humidity • ice crystal • ice crystals • Lighting • microscope • Photographs • photography • photography techniques • reflection • refraction • Rime • sixsided • six sides • snowflake • Snowflakes • supercooled cloud droplets • symmetry • Temperature • thin hexagonal plates
• ISBN-10: 1-62788-733-4 / 1627887334
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62788-733-5 / 9781627887335