Close-up
Chris Jones and Alex Ball
Every picture has the wow-factor in Close-up, a book full of amazing images created by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Animals, plants and crystals are revealed in a whole new light in a series of beautiful photographs which 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?
SEM
photography
SEM technology is a vital scientific tool, able to bypass
the limits of conventional microscopy and reveal objects
smaller than the wavelength of light itself. Samples usually
require extensive preparation including chemical fixation,
dehydration and an ultra-thin metallic coating before
they are ready to go into the microscope's vacuum chamber.
Published
by the Natural History Museum, London.
Key
features
- Unique,
full colour SEM images
- Images
produced by the Natural History Museum's internationally
respected Electron Microscope Unit
- Text
by Museum experts
About
the authors
Alex Ball has worked at the Natural History Museum
since 1997 and has a PhD in Zoology, specialising in research
on gastropod molluscs.
Chris
Jones worked at the Natural History Museum from 1988
to 2004 and is now an applications specialist in electron
microscopy for Hitachi. His research work has included
studies of the minerals in artist's pigments, working
with samples from major art galleries.
Related titles
Specimens (2003) showcases
the fascinating items in the Spirit Collection at the
Darwin Centre.
Reviews
"Lavishly illustrated in colour...contains many stunning
examples from the world of insects." Br J Ent Nat
Hist
Press
release
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Specifications
ISBN: 0 565 09172 7
Price: £5.95
Format: Hardback
Size: 150 x 140 mm
Extent: 64 pp
Illustrated in colour throughout
Published: 13 May 2004
Subject classification: Popular science; natural history; photography
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