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    Snow Crystals
    Snow Crystals
    Snow Crystals
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    Snow Crystals

    By W. A. Bentley and W. J. Humphreys

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    "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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 9, 2013
    ISBN9780486155258
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      I love this book because it gives me a unique feeling of spiritual unity each time I open it. It may be that you will appreciate it for different reasons, but for me, it is a graphic reminder that there is a creative and benign intelligence moving the Universe. Originally published in 1931 this unique book contains 202 black and white plates of snow flakes mounted and photographed with painstaking effort under difficult circumstances by W.A. Bentley aka Snowflake Bentley. Maybe you won't want to sit down and look at each and every one because, of course, they are nearly all the same even though each one is unique, but that's another reason I like the book. It demonstrates so simply and eloquently the unity in diversity.The photographs are very beautiful and they will be interesting to anyone who is fascinated with weather or with graphics in art, perhaps for textile patterns or silk-screen ideas. The images are copyright free and you can use up to ten of them without fees, permission, or acknowledgement. There is a very small amount of text at the beginning of this book that tells about the different kinds of snow crystals and a little bit about how the work to capture them on film was done. There is one nice photograph of Bentley at his camera which is charming, but for the most part, this book is dedicated to the snow crystals themselves. Anyone who has stood outside on a cold, crisp snowy day and caught snow crsytals on an upturned mitten and marveled at their exquisite beauty will enjoy this book. The crystals speak volumes and we have Mr. Bentley to thank for cummunicating their message to us.

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    Snow Crystals - W. A. Bentley

    DOVER PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS

    PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN, George N. Barnard. (0-486-23445-2)

    OLD BOSTON IN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS, 1850–1918, Philip Bergen. (0-486-26184-0)

    SNOW CRYSTALS, W. A. Bentley and W. J. HUMPHREYS. (0-486-20287-9)

    ART FORMS IN THE PLANT WORLD: 120 FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAPHS, Karl Blossfeldt. (0-486-24990-5)

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    PICTURE HISTORY OF AVIATION ON LONG ISLAND: 1908–1938, George C. Dade and Frank Strnad. (0-486-26008-9)

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    EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE: THE FATHER OF THE MOTION PICTURE, Gordon Hendricks. (0-486-41535-X)

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    PICTURE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AMERICAN AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, Joshua Stoff. (0-486-27618-X)

    VICTORIAN LONDON STREET LIFE IN HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS, John Thomson. (0-486-28121-3)

    BOSTON THEN AND NOW, Peter Vanderwarker. (0-486-24312-5)

    INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT: THE PHYSICS OF LIGHT, VISION, AND COLOR, Gary Waldman. (0-486-42118-X)

    AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES IN HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS: 1858 TO 1949, Ron Ziel (ed.). (0-486-27393-8)

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    W. A. BENTELY PHOTOGRAPHING SHOWS CRYSTALS

    SNOW CRYSTALS

    BY

    W. A. BENTLEY

    AND

    W. J. HUMPHREYS

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    NEW YORKNEW YORK

    This new Dover edition, first published in 1962, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. in

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