Microcosmos: Discovering the World through Microscopic Images from 20 × to Over 20 Million × Magnification. By Brandon Broll. 2010. Firefly Books. (ISBN 1554077141). 223 pages. Paperback. $19.95.
Microcosmos is an unabashed celebration of the beauty of microscopic structures. Arranged in six chapters (microorganisms, botanics, human body, zoology, minerals, and technology), each page presents a half-page color microscopic image with a short descriptive paragraph and magnification. A short foreword describing SEM technology precedes the photographs. The majority of the pictures are false-color scanning electron micrographs, with a few TEM and light microscope images found throughout. Specimens range widely, …
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Vol. 74 No. 3, March 2012
