Snow Crystals

Snow Crystals"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

The great Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)

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simple language and with exceptionally well chosen examples

and occasional suggestions for modifications

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Egyptian hieroglyphics

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which is dealt with in the greatest detail so that students can make applications and generalizations to similar problems

the mechanisms offer a fascinating view of the variety of small components that constitute complex machinery