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The Six-Cornered Snowflake

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

By Johannes Kepler

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Kepler's essay, On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, provides the first published evidence of the ideas of regular arrangements and close-packing which have proved fundamental to crystallography. In it, Kepler ponders on the problem of why snowflakes are hexagonal, two centuries before the first successful steps were taken towards its solution. The purpose of this volume is to display the historical, literary, scientific, and philosophical treasures of Kepler's essay. The book includes the modernized ...Show more

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9780198712497

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Oxford University Press

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2014

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The Six-Cornered Snowflake

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