Sea Creatures in Glass

2016-04-30
Sea Creatures in Glass

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  • Author: Scala Arts Publishers
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781785510434
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

Delicate jellyfish and anemones, octopus, tentacled squid, and bizarre-looking soft-bodied sea creatures were meticulously recreated in glass by father and son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century. Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums throughout the world as teaching models for students of natural science and marine life. Illustrated here for the first time with breathtaking new photography are 60 of the most exquisite models from the exceptional collection of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Together with Harvard's famous Glass Flowers, a new exhibit of these restored glass animals now comprises the largest Blaschka collection on display in the world. Bursting with intricate details and stunning photography, this elegantly designed book will be a must for all those interested in marine biology, the delicate art of glass craftsmanship, the history of science, and the quiet beauty of the natural world."

Legend of Sea Glass

2016-02-15
Legend of Sea Glass

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  • Author: Trinka Hakes Noble
  • Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
  • ISBN: 1634707915
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

Long, long ago there was a time when men did not venture into the deep ocean waters. It was believed that the world was flat and to sail beyond the horizon meant falling off the edge of the earth. So even though they were drawn to and fascinated by the ocean, men feared it. And as men lived their lives above the water, far beyond their view and in the ocean's deepest depths lived mysterious and magical sea creatures, half girl and half fish. These shy, gentle creatures were called mermaids and much loved by the ocean. And when men finally overcame their fear and ventured out to sea, risking disaster and even death, it was the mermaids who came to their rescue. Written by award-winning author Trinka Hakes Noble, this original legend explains the origin of sea glass, attributing it to the tears of mermaids, weeping for lives lost at sea.

Glass Flowers

2020-05-07
Glass Flowers

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  • Author: Jennifer Brown
  • Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
  • ISBN: 1785512242
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Exquisite detail is captured in this full-illustrated, beautifully designed publication celebrating Harvard University's unique and treasured 'Glass Flowers' collection. One of Harvard University's most famous treasures is the internationally acclaimed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, the "Glass Flowers." From orchids to bananas, rhododendrons to lilies, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka created a stunning array of glass models of plants from around the world. Working exclusively for Harvard in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Blaschkas applied their artistic expertise and botanical knowledge to craft an extraordinary collection for Harvard students, researchers, and the public. Exquisite detail is captured in this dazzling new publication, featuring new photography of models that inspire wonder and blur the line between the real and man-made. The collection demonstrates the majesty of plants and the artistry and scientific acumen of this father and son team, and is the only one of its kind in the world.

Sea Life Stained Glass Coloring Book

1990-11-01
Sea Life Stained Glass Coloring Book

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  • Author: Llyn Hunter
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780486264929
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

Illustrator Llyn Hunter has skillfully rendered a variety of easily recognizable as well as less familiar creatures of the sea. Boldly outlined in black on translucent paper, the 16 dramatic images include the amazing clown fish, delightful seahorses, brown pelicans, an Atlantic lobster, common dolphins, a formidable octopus, humpback whales, a magnificent sailfish, a blue crab and designs for seven other species. Nature lovers and coloring-book enthusiasts can bring these splendid illustrations to life with paints, crayons or felt-tip pens and then hang them against a window or other light source to produce dazzling stained glass effects. Suggestions for lifelike coloring are included.

Sea Glass Summer

2019-05-14
Sea Glass Summer

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  • Author: Michelle Houts
  • Publisher: Candlewick
  • ISBN: 0763684430
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 33

Author Michelle Houts and illustrator Bagram Ibatoulline explore the magic of one of the seaside’s greatest wonders and the bonds that link us through time. One summer, a boy named Thomas visits his grandmother at her seaside cottage. She gives him a magnifying glass that once belonged to his grandfather, and with it Thomas explores the beach, turning grains of sand into rocks and dark clamshells into swirling mazes of black, gray, and white. When his grandmother shows him a piece of sea glass, Thomas is transfixed. That night he dreams of an old shipyard and the breaking of a bottle. Could the very piece of sea glass on his nightstand have come from that bottle? For the rest of the summer, he searches for more sea glass and hopes to have dreams that will reveal more of the sea’s secrets. A stunning ode to stories and the seaside, this picture book invites readers to imagine the ocean of possibility that lives in every small or forgotten treasure.

Journey of the Sea Glass

2021-04-16
Journey of the Sea Glass

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  • Author: Nicole Fazio
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781732302068
  • Category : JUVENILE FICTION
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

What happens to glass between the time it falls into the sea and it washes up on the beach years later? This wordless story flows along one possible course of events, following a soda bottle dropped overboard from a ship early in the twentieth century, only to have a fragment of it discovered on a beach by a young girl decades later. Over time, the bottle has been influenced by waves, currents, the sea floor, and sea creatures, all pictured in lush full-color renderings by artist Nicole Fazio. Fully immersed in the art, children and adults alike can trace the passage of time through the Journey of the Sea Glass.

Marine Tropical Fish Stained Glass Coloring Book

1994-01-01
Marine Tropical Fish Stained Glass Coloring Book

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  • Author: John Green
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 0486280950
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 12

Eight exotic species ready to color: sea horse, polkadot grouper, clown triggerfish, long-nose butterflyfish, 4 more.

Ocean Outbreak

2021-03-16
Ocean Outbreak

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  • Author: Drew Harvell
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • ISBN: 0520382986
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

There is a growing crisis in our oceans: mysterious outbreaks of infectious disease are on the rise. Marine epidemics can cause mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of food chains, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Portending global environmental disaster, ocean outbreaks are fueled by warming seas, sewage dumping, unregulated aquaculture, and drifting plastic. Ocean Outbreak follows renowned scientist Drew Harvell and her colleagues into the field as they investigate how four iconic marine animals—corals, abalone, salmon, and starfish—have been devastated by disease. Based on over twenty years of research, this firsthand account of the sometimes gradual, sometimes exploding impact of disease on our ocean’s biodiversity ends with solutions and a call to action. Only through policy changes and the implementation of innovative solutions from nature can we reduce major outbreaks, save some ocean ecosystems, and protect our fragile environment.

Theatres of Glass

2003
Theatres of Glass

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  • Author: Rebecca Stott
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

In the winter of 1847, the cloisters of Westminster Abbey enjoyed a sudden growth in popularity, though the visitors who streamed in were not of the usual kind. They were naturalists, come to see the very first marine aquarium in England, a large collection of madrepores and sea sponges kept in glass cases in the drawing-room of Ashburnham House. The Abbey aquarium was established not by the Revered Lord John Thynne, the Sub-Dean of the Abbey, but by his extraordinary wife Anna, a great beauty and mother of 10 children, who by a process of serendipity, discovered how to keep and breed her pet sea creatures in glass tanks in central London. Anna's invention of the aquarium coincided with a major philosophical turning point in history. Married to a clergyman, she found herself working in a field which cut right through to the heart of the prevailing conflict about the origins and development of life on the planet.

Little Tropical Fish Stained Glass Coloring Book

1990
Little Tropical Fish Stained Glass Coloring Book

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  • Author: John Green
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • ISBN: 9780486263144
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 8

Eight drawings on translucent paper depict catfish, angelfish, swordtail, guppy, 4 more. Color with crayon, paints, or felt-tip pen. Watch these lovely creatures come to life with beautiful stained glass effects.