Snowflakes
Kenneth Libbrecht
Language: English
Pages: 513
ISBN: 2:00198573
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A cute giftbook packed with glorious color microphotography of real snow crystals by Dr. Snow—Caltech physicist Kenneth Libbrecht. His photos of snowflakes have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, and on The Martha Stewart Show, as well as numerous other places. This thick "cube" book is packed with a blizzard's worth of amazing images as well as literary quotes on the beauty of snow
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070-125_Snowflakes.indd 78 6/23/08 2:57:36 PM 79 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 79 6/23/08 2:58:06 PM B egin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand— and melting like a snowflake . . . —Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 80 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 80 6/23/08 2:59:16 PM 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 81 6/23/08 3:00:21 PM 82 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 82 7/3/08 7:35:10 AM 83 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 83 7/3/08 7:35:28
070-125_Snowflakes.indd 78 6/23/08 2:57:36 PM 79 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 79 6/23/08 2:58:06 PM B egin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand— and melting like a snowflake . . . —Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 80 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 80 6/23/08 2:59:16 PM 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 81 6/23/08 3:00:21 PM 82 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 82 7/3/08 7:35:10 AM 83 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 83 7/3/08 7:35:28
6/23/08 3:43:03 PM 112 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 112 6/23/08 3:43:32 PM 113 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 113 6/23/08 3:44:02 PM 114 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 114 6/23/08 3:44:46 PM 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 115 6/23/08 3:45:19 PM 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 116 7/3/08 7:35:53 AM 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 117 7/3/08 7:36:15 AM O ne cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. —Jane Austen (1775–1817) 118 070-125_Snowflakes.indd 118
126-213_Snowflakes.indd 148 6/23/08 4:37:31 PM 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 149 6/23/08 4:38:01 PM 150 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 150 6/23/08 4:38:54 PM 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 151 6/23/08 4:57:08 PM 152 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 152 6/23/08 4:57:57 PM 153 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 153 6/23/08 4:58:26 PM 154 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 154 6/23/08 4:58:57 PM 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 155 6/23/08 4:59:34 PM To see a World in a grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity
176 7/3/08 8:41:09 AM 177 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 177 7/3/08 8:41:32 AM T he pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. —Albert Einstein (1879–1955) 178 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 178 6/23/08 5:15:41 PM 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 179 6/23/08 5:16:15 PM 180 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 180 6/23/08 5:16:51 PM 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 181 6/23/08 5:39:38 PM 182 126-213_Snowflakes.indd 182 6/23/08 5:40:16 PM 183