Insect and spider books

Close-up

Amazing scanning electron microscope (SEM) images – animals, plants and crystals are revealed in a whole new light

ISBN: 0565091727

Author: Chris Jones and Alex Ball

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Close-up

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Every picture has the wow-factor in Close-up, a book full of amazing scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. Created by the Museum’s internationally respected Electron Microscope Unit, animals, plants and crystals are revealed in a whole new light. These beautiful photographs go beyond the realm of the scientific to be admired for their own sake.

At this level of detail, reality can be quite surprising and even the most mundane object becomes a thing of great beauty. Pollen grains, the bane of hayfever sufferers, become dramatic sculptures. The underside of a leaf is an impenetrable thicket of spines and a giant spider looks at you with eight huge eyes.

This book is guaranteed to make you look and make you ask questions: what is that? where is it from? what does it do?

Reviews

‘Lavishly illustrated in colour…You really do enter the insect world’ British Journal of Entomology and Natural History

Product information

Hardback, 150 x 140 mm, 64 pp, 2004, Illustrated in colour throughout
0 565 09172 7
Published by the Natural History Museum, London

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