Olaus Magnus Early Snowflake Color Book Characterizations

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Early Snowflake Coloring Book Child Craft Images: Olaus Magnus

Considered the first historian of artic regions, in 1555 Archbishop of Uppsala, Olaus Magnus illustrated twenty-three different types of snow-crystals. His designs were unusual in that the snowflakes were in the form of bells, hands, arrows, eyes, crescent, etc.

View a screen shot of the Woodcut by Olaus Magnus taken from an article by F. Eijgenraam NRC Handelsblad (14 Feb. 1991) (on page 8 of a very large pdf file)

Teachers may use these images to teach children about the history of snowflake exploration and to introduce snowflake science and snowflake illustration.

Enlarged Images of Snowflake Crystals Illustrated by Olaus Magnus Early Snowflake Explorer

Olaus Mangus #035