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The Six-Cornered Snowflake (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences)
The SixCornered Snowflake - Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences
Author: Johannes Kepler
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 p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198712497
ISBN-10: 0198712499
Publication Date: 6/10/2014
Pages: 88
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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