I claim my students will find these books readable. I believe the students will also find them interesting.
Ivan Bernal, Walter C. Hamilton, and John S. Ricci
Symmetry A Stereoscopic Guide for Chemists
W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1972.
To repeat, a great book, even if you only look at the pictures.
John G. Burke
Origins of the Science of Crystals
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1966.
A history, shows how the story is more complicated than the textbook versions.
Rodney Cotterill
The Cambridge Guide to the Material World
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985.
An abundance of colorful illustrations. Anything else I could say would sound like I was quoting the publisher’s blurbs.
James Dwight Dana revised by Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr.
Dana’s Manual of Mineralogy, 17th ed.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1959.
Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr. and Cornelis Klein
Manual of Mineralogy (after James D. Dana) 19th Edition
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1977.
Bruno Ernst
The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher
Ballantine Books, New York, 1976.
An aspect of the unit not pursued. Escher did many prints as space filling patterns. They can be analyzed as to what group structure they have. Escher also investigated perspective which this book discusses.
Paul P. Ewald
Fifty Years of X-ray Diffraction
International Union of Crystallography, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1962.
Alan Holden and Phylis Morrison
Crystals and Crystal
Growing
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 6th printing, 1988 new material copyright 1982 by MIT, copyright 1960 by Alan Holden & Phylis Morrison.
A classic, everyone should have a copy.
Alan Holden
The Nature of Solids
Columbia University Press, New York, 1965.
Morris Kline
Mathematics in Western Culture
Oxford University Press, New York, 1953.
Robert Lawlor
Sacred Geometry
Crossroad, New York, 1982.
Many figures, especially constructions.
Josef Vincent Lombardo, Lewis O. Johnson, and W. Irwin Short
Engineering Drawing
Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1956.
A reference students can work through on their own.
Philip and Phylis Morrison
The Ring of Truth
Random House, Inc., New York, 1987.
A companion to a PBS series, with many illustrations. Teaches observation, asking questions, answering questions.
John Pottage
Geometrical Investigations
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Mass., 1983.
Elizabeth A. Wood
Crystals and Light
D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1964.
Elizabeth A. Wood
Crystals—A Handbook for School Teachers
Elizabeth A. Wood, 1972.
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