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
Botany
The human body
Zoology
Minerals
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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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)

great image source for fine artist

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.
February 26, 2008

Can't Go Wrong

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 bough 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.
January 07, 2008

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