Ebook {Epub PDF} The Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley by Duncan C. Blanchard

 · Bentley, a Vermont farmer who spent a lifetime () studying and photographing snow crystals was the originator of the saying: "No two snowflakes are alike." Blanchard, a retired atmospheric scientist, pays tribute to this initially ridiculed autodidact. Includes a few of Bentley's 5,plus landmark photos and family www.doorway.ru: McDonald Woodward Publishing Company, The. The Snowflake Man. DUNCAN C. BLANCHARD, (). Weatherwise, 23 (6), On the ninth day of February , Lee's army was evacuating Richmond while Grant's army was moving southward to block the retreat. And on that same day, in the small village of Jericho in northern Vermont, Wilson Alwyn Bentley was born. Bentley's story is one of courage and persistence against tremendous odds. This is a biography of Wilson Alwyn Bentley, the farmer from Jericho, Vermont, who took over five thousand photomicrographs of ice, dew, frost, and -- especially -- snow crystals. Although his photographs were taken between and , they have never been equalled and are in great demand today/5.

— Wilson Alwyn Bentley From the earliest days of our childhood, many of us can remember hearing the phrase "no two snowflakes are alike". This discovery was made by a man named Wilson Bentley, a farmer from Vermont, who became affectionately known as "Snowflake" Bentley. (Source: Blanchard, Duncan C., Wilson Bentley, The Snowflake Man. Weatherwise v (6), pp) Return to top of page. Snow Crystal Classification and Cross Reference. The most widely used classification for solid precipitation was proposed by the International Commission on Snow and Ice in BENTLEY was the subject of a Caldecott Medal-winning book, Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton Mifflin Company, ), and a biography by Duncan C. Blanchard, The Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley (McDonald Woodward Publishing Company, ).

The Snowflake Man. DUNCAN C. BLANCHARD, (). Weatherwise, 23 (6), On the ninth day of February , Lee's army was evacuating Richmond while Grant's army was moving southward to block the retreat. And on that same day, in the small village of Jericho in northern Vermont, Wilson Alwyn Bentley was born. This is a biography of Wilson Alwyn Bentley, the farmer from Jericho, Vermont, who took over five thousand photomicrographs of ice, dew, frost, and -- especially -- snow crystals. Although his photographs were taken between and , they have never been equalled and are in great demand today. Bentley's story is one of courage and persistence against tremendous odds. Wilson A. Bentley was born in in Jericho, Vermont. Taught by his mother, he lived and worked on his family farm located in the "Snowbelt," where the annual snow fall was about inches. From the time he was a small boy, Bentley was fascinated by the natural world around him.