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February 8, 2005

snowflakes [General] — rustle @ 9:03 pm

snowflake

Awesome snowflake photography here.

This site has twelve-sided flakes, triangular flakes, bullet shaped, arrow-heads, and a weird twin-prism:

twin prism

Johannes Keppler first published “On the Six-Cornered snowflake” in 1611. Descartes followed in 1635 with an accurate description of the morphology of the snow crystal. Robert Hooke in 1665 published a series of drawings he’d made of snowflakes after viewing a number of examples with the new-fangled microscope.

hooke

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