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Based on both arts and science, once a beautiful reality, all these snowflake images survived time. They were captured by Wilson Bentley (1865?1931), a passionate snow crystals photographer, around 1902. He developed an interesting technique of catching flakes on black velvet before they either melted or sublimated: “each crystal was caught on a blackboard and transferred rapidly to a microscope slide.”

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?Quick, the first flakes are coming; the couriers of the coming snow storm. Open the skylight, and directly under it place the carefully prepared blackboard, on whose ebony surface the most minute form of frozen beauty may be welcome from cloud-land. The mysteries of the upper air are about to reveal themselves, if our hands are deft and our eyes quick enough.??Wilson A. Bentley, “The Story of the Snow Crystals? Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 104 (1901:Dec.-1902:May).

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Source: Wikimedia Commons, Bentley Snow Crystal Collection
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