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Heaven & Earth: Unseen By The Naked Eye (Photography)

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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.

I bought this book for my wife, and the pictures are amazing. You really can't go wrong with something this fantastic. The biggest problem is the binding is garbage - hence the 4 stars - on the paperback. After looking through it ONCE, it is already falling apart. Worth the extra couple of bucks for the hardcover.

Received this book for Christmas, and the pictures are spectacular! This book is definitely a keeper. However, the paperback version has a problem with it's binding. My copy, the pages are already falling out ... but because this book is so great, I will be replacing it with the hard cover version.

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.

This book contains one of the best set of images I have ever seen. There are pictures of different subjects on a whole variety of scales and colours, which are fantastic design sources for many arty/crafty people who lack inspiration for various projects. Some images are unidentifyable and are impossible to understand without reading the blurbs - I spent a while guessing what some of the pictures were & quite often got them completely wrong. It's one of those books which make you realise that you are glad that you cannot see to microscopic levels, especially of bedbugs & flies etc..! Well worth getting & some amazing photography.

I'm not much of one for coffee table photo books. This book, though, blew me away.
Heaven and Earth presents images we can't see with our naked eyes, moving from the ultra-small (the first photo traces the paths of subatomic particles) to the cosmically large (the closing photos are images of entire galaxies). This easily could have turned into an aseptic catalogue of things great and small, much like a high school science book. With a keen eye for color and composition, though, the authors instead assembled a vibrant collection of captivating images that are visually stunning in their own right but made even more intriguing when viewed in the context of the work as a whole. The universe truly is a marvel of complexity and this work captures that complexity better than any I've ever seen.
Caveat: I'm discussing the hardcover; I haven't seen the paperback, so I can't vouch for its quality.

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.

This is a superb book. I'm 73 with a scientific background and still very active in my field. The book has also been devoured by my 3 teenage grandchildren. They have been fascinated. The photographs are outstanding. The brief text for each picture is well written, succinct, relevant, interesting and scientifically accurate. I found the introduction stimulating and thought provoking. It's a great book. I'm glad I found it.

This is a facinating book that both my husband and I could not put down. Highly recommended.

All of the images in this book are noteworthy; some are truly spectacular. The only thing that the various images have in common is that the images cannot be seen by an unaided human eye; the images span from the microscopic to astronomic. Considering the quality of the images in this book, it's too bad that the paperback version is so small (under 9x6). Given the quality of these images, the larger size of the hardback would have been well worthwhile the slightly higher price.