Heaven & Earth: Unseen By the Naked Eye

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Summary: A feast for the eyes
Review: Every year when the holiday shopping season rolls around, there is a glut of beautifully illustrated coffee table books on the market. But I have yet to see one this season that compares to the mind-boggling beauty of "Heaven & Earth". The photos in this magnificent collection run the gamut from the microscopic to the macrocosmic, presented in order of size. Like explorers of uncharted seas, we are able to discover the incredible detail hidden in the extremely small and to map the grand pattern in the extremely vast. We are also able to observe, as exemplified by the illustration on the cover, that there is often an eerie pattern of similarity revealed when viewing side-by-side things of vastly different scale. Not only is this book a feast for the eyes, but fuel for the intellect as well.

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Summary: exhilarating collection of scientific photogarphs
Review: The photographs in this book range from microscopic to space fields light years away.From an atom of gold to pictures from the hubble telescope. Enjoy satellite pictures of foreign lands.
See microscopic organisms,and colonies. Loaded with over 350 illustrations, a short story on how the picture was aquired, and a description of the object, all pictures very artistic. This book will open your mind to science and soothe your senses.

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Summary: extraordinary collection of exhilarating scientific photos !
Review: This book opens your mind to science. Photos vary in sizes from the microscopic atoms of gold to photographs taken from the hubble telescope. Witness microscopic colonies which live in water, space fields light years away, and everything in-between.
Enjoy satellite pictures of foreign lands. Get the scoop on the latest astronomy findings. Over 350 illustrations, each one worth admiration. This book sets the mind and senses at ease.

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Summary: Great science, good large pictures, family-share friendly!
Review: When my sister comes over, we pour through this book and share a really neat experience. This book has huge one page photos accompanied by a single paragraph of description to one side. It is not a book of side by side comparison, but it does have a progression in size from the very small to the very large. The pictures are very good to excellent. The written material is concise yet detailed and very informative. Well worth paying for the shipping of this large and thick book. This is the only "Coffee Table" book I have ever recommended to anyone, period. P.S. Buy the hardbound version. The paperback version falls apart (as of February 2005- maybe they'll fix it in the future).

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Summary: Breathtakingly beautiful
Review: Wondrous and fun photographs that will amaze you. I am going to buy copies for all my nieces for Christmas.