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| Hidden Beauty: Microworlds Revealed | 
 enlarge | Authors: France Bourely, Laurel Hirsch
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
Buy Collectible: $56.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 807495
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 10 x 0.8
ISBN: 0810935473
Dewey Decimal Number: 570.2825
EAN: 9780810935471
ASIN: 0810935473
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: First edition, First printing! The book itself is just like new - clean, tight and unmarked. The dust jacket, however, has small tear on the top edge of the back side. Apparently lightly read copy. Has a remainder mark. No price clips or other imperfections.
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Product Description
France Bourely takes the reader on a visual odyssey far beyond the reaches of the naked eye with her scanning electron microscope. She travels lunar landscapes on the back of an ant, explores secret valleys in orchid petals, scales the pistils of a daisy, crosses mountains made of pollen, discovers crevices on the back of a caterpillar and takes shelter under a bush of bristles. This volume reveals the microscopic dimension that surrounds us all.
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Stunning + Inspiring September 4, 2003
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Talking a tour through this book is every bit as exciting as exploring new realms. Ms. Bourley had carefully considered her career options and among them were astronaut. Then her focus (literally!) took an unexpected turn. She discovered the depths in the ordinary that surround us. Her travels far, far into inner worlds are amazing and truly uplifting. To see the symmetry and beauty of such teensy tiny wholly seperate beings and things is to speak to the wondrous possibilities of the simple (and even inspirational) joys in seeing not totally unfamiliar patterning on such a miniscule scale. I come away thinking "everything is significant.". The calm in that is worth the price of admission. Along the same lines is a movie entitled "Microcosms". I suggest you look for it. You'll like that, too.
Stunning, Visionary Book! January 30, 2003
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
As a physicist (by profession), and amateur photographer (in my free time) I must say that I have *never* encountered a finer example of a synergy of art and science (not to mention philosophy) displayed than what awaits the lucky reader who purchases this extraordinary book. Some of the images, on a purely aesthetic level, rank (in my humble opinion) with some of the great abstract photographs that have **ever** been taken! Indeed, I am tempted to equate what Dr. Bourely has accomplished here to what Ansel Adams accomplished for the American West with his magnificent large format photography. What Adams represents for the macroscopic world, Dr. Bourely represents for the microscopic one. She is *that* good...as a guide, as a scientist, as photographer, and as a visionary.Quite simply this is one of the most beautiful books I've ever had the pleasure of owning and I shall treasure it for a long, long time to come. If you love photography, or science, or abstraction, or philosophy, or ever simply marvel at the ineffable mystery we call the universe, you owe it to yourself to get this book. It is destined to be a classic.
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