The SixCornered Snowflake (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences)

The SixCornered Snowflake (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences)

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Keplers essay, On the SixCornered Snowflake, provides the first published evidence of the ideas of regular arrangements and closepacking 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 Keplers 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. Masons discussion of the scientific meaning and validity of Keplers arguments and their relation to the history of crystallography and of space filling, and L. L. Whytes examination of Keplers facultas formatrix in relation to the history of philosophical and scientific ideas on the genesis of forms.

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