Mr. L. L. Whyte and Professor B. J. Mason make clear in learned and pertinent essays that this was the first scientific examination in Europe of the regular shape of snowflakes. It was the first step towards the modern science of crystallography, and as such has some importance in the history of science.

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Johannes Kepler

Klappentext

Johannes Kepler's Latin essay of 1611, 'On the Six-Cornered Snowflake', is here presented in an English translation by Colin Hardie. The text is accompanied by essays from Brian J. Mason and Lancelot Law Whyte, describing the place Kepler's work holds in the development of crystallography.

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Synopsis ; Note on the Text ; Latin Text facing English Translation ; On the Shapes of Snow Crystals ; Kepler's Unsolved Problem and the Facultas Formatrix ; Notes ; Bibliography