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The Six-cornered Snowflake

2014 Science
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Release : 2014
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Book Synopsis The Six-cornered Snowflake by : Johannes Kepler

Download or read book The Six-cornered Snowflake written by Johannes Kepler. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems

1990 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1990
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems by : John Frederick Nims

Download or read book The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems written by John Frederick Nims. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a preeminent modernist poet and translator of the classics, John Frederick Nims's work is an elegant fusion of contemporary sensibility with formalist experimentation. But form, for this writer of meditative verse, is only a helpmeet to the quintessential content of the poem, the meaning that gives it value in our time and, one hopes, beyond. Concerning the formal elements of poetry, Nims comments: "One might say they are like the scaffolding at a construction site, meant to be thrown away and not regarded once the building is completed." In his newest collection, The Six-Cornered Snowflake, his poems range through an astonishing variety of complex structures: the shaped-poem of the title work, the sestina, the vocal "Pindar's lattice" of the "First Olympian Ode," the nervous galliambics of "Catullus 63"--just to name a few. As William Pritchard, writing for The New York Times Book Review, so aptly observed, "Mr. Nims has consistently had the nerve to be interested in what language could be made to do, rather than what the psyche would be made to reveal."

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

2010-01-01 Science
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Release : 2010-01-01
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Book Synopsis The Six-Cornered Snowflake by : Johannes Kepler

Download or read book The Six-Cornered Snowflake written by Johannes Kepler. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1611, Kepler wrote an essay wondering why snowflakes always had perfect, sixfold symmetry. It's a simple enough question, but one that no one had ever asked before and one that couldn't actually be answered for another three centuries. Still, in trying to work out an answer, Kepler raised some fascinating questions about physics, math, and biology, and now you can watch in wonder as a great scientific genius unleashes the full force of his intellect on a seemingly trivial question, complete with new illustrations and essays to put it all in perspective."—io9, from their list "10 Amazing Science Books That Reveal The Wonders Of The Universe" When snow began to fall while he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague late in 1610, the eminent astronomer Johannes Kepler asked himself the following question: Why do snowflakes, when they first fall, and before they are entangled into larger clumps, always come down with six corners and with six radii tufted like feathers? In his effort to answer this charming and never-before-asked question about snowflakes, Kepler delves into the nature of beehives, peapods, pomegranates, five-petaled flowers, the spiral shape of the snail's shell, and the formative power of nature itself. While he did not answer his original question—it remained a mystery for another three hundred years—he did find an occasion for deep and playful thought. "A most suitable book for any and all during the winter and holiday seasons is a reissue of a holiday present by the great mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler…Even the endnotes in this wonderful little book are interesting and educationally fun to read."—Jay Pasachoff, The Key Reporter —New English translation by Jacques Bromberg —Latin text on facing pages —An essay, "The Delights of a Roving Mind" by Owen Gingerich —An essay, "On The Six-Cornered Snowflake" by Guillermo Bleichmar —Snowflake illustrations by Capi Corrales Rodriganez —John Frederick Nims' poem "The Six-Cornered Snowflake" —Notes by Jacques Bromberg and Guillermo Bleichmar

Snow Crystals

1931 Crystallization
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Release : 1931
Genre : Crystallization
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Book Synopsis Snow Crystals by : Wilson Alwyn Bentley

Download or read book Snow Crystals written by Wilson Alwyn Bentley. This book was released on 1931. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Six-cornered Snowflake

1989 Letter-pictures
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Release : 1989
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Book Synopsis The Six-cornered Snowflake by : John Frederick Nims

Download or read book The Six-cornered Snowflake written by John Frederick Nims. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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