Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification | 
| Author: Brandon Broll
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Stated First Printing
Pages: 432
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.8
ISBN: 1554072379
Dewey Decimal Number: 779
EAN: 9781554072378
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Product Description
A journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images. This substantial volume brings together extraordinary images produced through the latest technologies in microphotography. Most of the 205 stunning, full-color photographs have been taken using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), allowing us to see our world as never before. Each image is a close-up that reveals remarkable forms, shapes and colors. The book is divided into six chapters that cover:
- Micro-organisms
- Zoology
- Botany
- Minerals
- The human body
- Technology Every spread includes complete, informative captions that identify the photograph and describe both the image and the way in which it was captured. With its stunning full-color photographs and text written in clear and accessible language, Microcosmos provides a fascinating journey of discovery.
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Can't Go Wrong January 7, 2008
Bruce Deitrick Price (Norfolk, Va.)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
I try to confine my Amazon reviews to serious books about education and philosophy. When Amazon sent an email asking me to review this book (because, after all, I had bought it), I thought, no, I don't want to blur what I'm doing.
But what the heck, folks, this is a wonderful book. It's your perfect gift for smarter people. Not costly. Beautifully designed. Not a coffee table book, by the way, but sort of petite.
I'm a big believer in telling students about the very large and the very small (as people tend to think that the world they can see around them is pretty much all there is). Microcosmos is the perfect first portal into the unseen all about us. I'm also a big believer in trying to excite in people a sense of awe and wonder (as an educational tool). Microcosmos excites.
This book contains more than 200 color photographs divided into six categories: Microorganisms, Botanics, Human Body, Zoology, Minerals, and Technology.
excellent photomicrographs February 25, 2009
J. Albert (Perth WA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Images in this book are excellent. I will be able to use them to get some of the high school age kids I teach enthused about learning microscopy.
Beautiful and fascinating February 25, 2009
Science Goddess (Champaign, IL United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
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I know how to do all of the techniques used to create the images in this book and have an extra special appreciation for it. Lovely images, amazing to browse through!
great image source for fine artist February 26, 2008
K. Smith (SE Missouri)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
A great photography book of images that provide new shape and texture ideas in my artwork. Also using it as a resource for shape exercises with my drawing students.
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