Snow crystals
(1962)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
551.57/BENTLEY,W

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 551.57/BENTLEY,W Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Dover Publications, [1962]
©1962
DESCRIPTION

226 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0486202879, 9780486202877, 0486202879
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published ... in 1931."

Part I: the snow crystal -- History -- Taking the snow crystal's picture -- Some facts on observation -- Classification -- Circumstances of occurrence -- Markings -- Shapes of cavities -- Parasitic crystals -- Picture crystals -- Crystallography of the snow crystal -- Peculiar crystals -- Partial bibliography of the ice crystal -- Part II: The snowflake's closest of kin, and its cousin, the dewdrop -- Ice flowers -- Windowpane frost -- Dew and frost -- Rime -- Glaze -- Sleet -- Graupel

Over 2,000 pictures of snow crystals taken by William Bentley in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont

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