Join Colin Salter, author of ‘Science is Beautiful: Botanical Life’ at Edinburgh Science Festival
Through the ages plants have been associated with beauty. Microscopes reveal that what’s true of pla[…]
MORE >Science is Beautiful: Botanical Life
Under the Microscope
Format:
Hardback ISBN: 9781849944816
Hardback publication date: 7 June 2018
Series: Science is Beautiful
Category: Science
Hardback price:
£
20.00
OUT OF STOCK
The plant world has always been appreciated for its visual appeal, but its true beauty can be revealed when you look under the electron microscope. This collection unearths some of the most wonderful microscopic images of flowers, trees and grasses ever created, now made possible by technology. We get to see the wonder of pollen, seeds, petals, algae and leaves. The images are as beautiful as any art.
This stunning collection of images can be enjoyed purely as a visual voyage but also as a way to understand more of the science behind the image. Whether it’s the work of a lavender leaf oil gland, the inside of a pine pollen, flower stamen sculptures deep inside a tree bark, or the wonderful patterns of lichen. Each image will include the scale of the photography as well as the scientific details in layman’s terms.
ABOUT THE Author
Colin Salter is a former theatrical production manager, now a prolific author of literary history. In the course of fifteen years he worked on well over a hundred plays including, of course, many by William Shakespeare. For Batsford he has written 100 Books that Changed the World and 100 Children’s Books that Inspire Our World. He is the author of a biography of Mark Twain and is currently working on a history of the books in one family’s three-hundred-year-old library. He delights in the richness of language, whether William Shakespeare’s or PG Wodehouse’s. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, dog and bicycle.
READ MORERELATED NEWS & EVENTS
