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2) MicroPlanet
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English
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Microscopic insect photography brings to life a vibrant world within our own, teaming with diversity and all around us but never seen. From the multi-colored snouted snail to the ghost shrimp, this documentary beautifully depicts how little things live.
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Clad in spiked and scaled armor, lance-like pincers at the ready, alien creatures are in our gardens, our floorboards, and our bedsheets. David M. Phillips has taken his life-long love of insect biology and microscopy and produced a mesmerizing look into the hidden world of the insect form. The 150 photographs in this book, all taken using an electron microscope, reveal an amazing variety of anatomical structures normally invisible to the human eye:...
12) The microscope
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Relates in rhyme the famous Dutch scientist's penchant for viewing things with a microscope, through which he made remarkable observations.