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Kepler's Snowflakes

Science Stories by BBC

Dec 26, 201827:52Science & Medicine

Philip Ball reveals the tale of a small booklet 'On The Six-Cornered Snowflake", written by Johannes Kepler as a New Year's gift. The C17th astronomer wished to explain the intricate and symmetrical shape of winter's tin...

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Kepler's Snowflakes is an episode from Science Stories by BBC. Philip Ball reveals the tale of a small booklet 'On The Six-Cornered Snowflake", written by Johannes Kepler as a New Year's gift. The C17th astronomer wished to explain the intr...

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