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.
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Klear@quokk.au 5 months 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.
happybadger@hexbear.net 5 months ago
eRac@lemmings.world 5 months ago
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.
Klear@quokk.au 5 months ago
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.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
He didn’t know about molecules so… There was no language for him to differentiate between matter and states of matter.