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Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
There is a wonderful book by Johannes Kepler about snowflakes. It’s a great read, because he’s one of the all-time greats and his thinking is fascinating and insightful and wrong at just about every turn, but he’s doing his best even though knowing what he know he never stood a chance. I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.
Highly recommended.
I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.
The summaries I find reference him theorizing that water may be spherical, leading to the hexagon pattern. He also related the feathery ends to steam hitting a cold window.
It seems to me that he knew that steam, water, and ice were the same thing.
Well, you’d be wrong. He thought they were different substances, one turning into another.
I really recommend finding the book and reading it. It’s short and fairly easy to read. IIRC it was written as a Christmas present for someone, not as a super serious scientific treatise.
I mean, the guy didn’t know that water and ice are the same thing.
What was his logic here? I still believe that but I’m curious to hear a scientific reason why.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He didn’t know about molecules so… There was no language for him to differentiate between matter and states of matter.