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The Six-Cornered Snowflake (Paperback)
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The Six-Cornered Snowflake (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences
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Total price: R811
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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 text of the 1611
Latin edition, with an English translation by Colin Hardie on the
opposite pages. The text is accompanied by an introduction giving
details of the history of the work, and two essays; Professor B. J.
Mason's discussion of the scientific meaning and validity of
Kepler's arguments and their relation to the history of
crystallography and of space filling, and L. L. Whyte's examination
of Kepler's facultas formatrix in relation to the history of
philosophical and scientific ideas on the genesis of forms.
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