The six-cornered snowflake / Johannes Kepler.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: xiv, 74, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0198712499 (pbk)
- 9780198712497 (pbk)
- Strena. English & Latin
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. This volume includes the modernized text of the 1611 Latin edition, with an English translation by Colin Hardie on theopposite pages. This is accompanied by essays from Brian J. Mason and Lancelot Law Whyte, describing the place Kepler's work holds in the development of crystallography.
Text in Latin and English, notes and commentaries in English. Originally published, Strena, seu, De nive sexangula. Frankfurt-am-Main, Godfrey Tampach, 1611.
Includes bibliographical references (page 75).