Download or read book The Snowflake written by Kenneth Libbrecht and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but you've never seen them like this! A collection of amazing photography of snow crystals using a unique system designed to take super-detailed micro images of these miniature ice masterpieces, The Snowflake is an extraordinary look at a seemingly ordinary object. The author, head of the physics department at Caltech and the pre-eminent snow-crystal researcher, discusses the physics and mythology of snow and how snow crystals are made.