NANOCOSMOS JOURNEYS IN ELECTRON SPACE

Hundreds of plates include radiolarians, dinoflagellates, and diatoms, as well as many varieties of insects, microscopic flowers, and even lunar samples from the Apollo program. A breathtaking tour of the NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN MICROSCOPIC natural world -- a glorious examination of majestic topographies revealed by powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies. Magnificent full page plates of  "eerie, awe-inspiring beauty".  An unprecedented examination of natural design at sub-millimeter scales. The humbling immensity of our universe of planets, stars, and galaxies has always inspired humanity. But what about the vistas at the other end of the size-scale? The tiny worlds here, invisible to our unassisted eyes, are if anything more intricate, complex, and extraordinary than anything so far seen in deep space. Constructed from SEM scans made over the course of six years at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Quebec, the images presented here reveal an eerie, awe-inspiring beauty in subjects taken from the natural world. The composite mosaic micrographs in Nanocosmos fuse art and science in revelatory ways, exposing an astonishing sublimity hidden to the naked eye.