SO ENDS this first part on Kepler’s snowflake. In part because the properties of water are unusual, snowflake geometry and features are also unusual. Having words for things permits humans to discern differences: the old platitude about Eskimo words for snow turned out to be less than clear. But today, science has added new concepts to Kepler’s snowflake, based on the quirky properties of water, allowing us a new perception of those beguiling geometries that occupied Kepler.
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