Out of Sight: Pictures of Hidden LE

Simon, Seymour

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9781587170126: Out of Sight: Pictures of Hidden LE

ISBN 10: 1587170124 ISBN 13: 9781587170126

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2000

A popular science author shows pictures of objects which are too small, too far away, or too fast to see without mechanical assistance such as microscopes, telescopes, X-rays, and other techniques. 25,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Seymour Simon is the author of more than 200 science books for children. In addition to his series about the human body, Mr. Simon has written numerous books about the planets and our universe, including The Solar System, Tornadoes, and Icebergs and Glaciers, winner of the New York Academy of Sciences Award. He lives in Great Neck, New York.

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Gr. 3-6. Simon directs his readers' attention to images of "hidden worlds," a phrase that he interprets broadly. A picture of a spiked virus, invisibly small before the invention of electron microscopes, is here enlarged to extend beyond the boundaries of the large, double-page spread. The inside of a human heart is seen through an endoscope using fiber-optic tubes. A bullet, caught in the flash from an electronic strobe, is photographed at the instant when it rips through a playing card. An infrared photo, taken from the Landsat satellite and color enhanced by computer, shows details of the Nile River Delta. A picture of Jupiter's red spot, photographed by a passing spacecraft, reached Earth via radio waves. At times the text seems torn between discussing what we are seeing and explaining how the image was made. More emphasis on technique would have made this a stronger, more coherent book, but anyone who comes across it will happily browse through the intriguing and sometimes awesome pictures collected in this handsome volume. Carolyn Phelan
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