A Bluestocking Knits: Snowflakes

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January 02, 2006

Snowflakes

In the spirit of the season -- although this is probably the only snow I'll come in contact with this winter! -- here are a few of the fascinating snowflake photomicrographs of Wilson A Bentley.

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Bentley, a farmer in rural Vermont, became in 1885 the first person to photograph a snowflake, using a microscope fitted to a bellows camera.

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Images from Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley at snowflakebentley.com . (Knitters, have a look at the snowflake zipper pulls in the virtual gift shop -- would be lovely on a winter cardigan!)

04:19 AM in Miscellanea | Permalink

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so gorgeous!

I have a book of these somewhere -- I need to go find it.

Posted by: blackbird | January 03, 2006 at 04:08 AM

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