SIX CORNERED SNOWFLAKE. “In naming his essay, Kepler consciously played with words and made a pun with the word nix: In Latin, the language in which he composed the essay, the word means “snowflake,” but in Low German, Kepler’s native tongue, it means “nothing.” At its core, the essay functions as a meditation on the nature of substance: if a snowflake, crafted of water vapor, melts momentarily, is it anything at all?”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022