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Snowflake photos by Bentley, c. 1902 Bentley snowflake micrograph, 1890. Bentley was born on February 9, 1865, in Jericho, Vermont. He first became interested in snow crystals as a teenager on his family farm. “Always, right from the beginning it was the snowflakes that fascinated me most,” he said.
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Snowflake Bentley is a medium-size book, measuring 10 ½ by 10 ¼ inches, and having 16 pages of illustrations. The majority of the pictures are large colorful prints, the typical art style of artist Mary Azarian, and each picture summarizes the wording for that page.
Artists, philosophers, and scientists have wondered at their shape, recorded them by hand or in photographs, and attempted to recreate hexagonal snowflakes. Wilson Alwyn Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931), also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take ...
Although nearly-identical snowflakes have been made in laboratory, they are very unlikely to be found in nature. [18] [10] [19] [20] Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands of them with a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today.
Winter Storm Jett On The Move To Midwest, Northeast With Snow And Ice This Weekend. Weather. Associated Press. After heavy rains, debris flows hit Southern California community scarred by fire.
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Mandy and Sandy Bentley (1999-2000) The twin sisters were Hefner’s first twin live-in girlfriends for a year. Brande Roderick (2000-2001) Roderick, a “Baywatch” actress, dated Hefner for one ...