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In retrospect: On the Six-Cornered Snowflake

Philip Ball celebrates the fourth centenary of Johannes Kepler's ice-crystal analysis.

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Ball, P. In retrospect: On the Six-Cornered Snowflake. Nature 480, 455 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480455a

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  1. To the readers of NATURE:

    In 2010, Paul Dry Books published a new translation of Kepler's The Six-Cornered Snowflake. Our edition also includes the Latin text, illustrations, essays by Owen Gingerich and Guillermo Bleichmar, and the poem "The Six-Cornered Snowflake" by John Frederick Nims, along with helpful notes on the text.

    We wanted our edition to be playful and probing in the spirit of De Nive Sexangula.

    Paul Dry
    www.pauldrybooks.com

  2. Hello Paul, do you know where I can find tis book ?
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