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by alfredabbe76
Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:10 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Wacker von Wackenfels
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Wacker von Wackenfels

<<Johannes Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (1550–1619) was an active diplomat, scholar and author, with an avid interest in history and philosophy. In 1611 his devoted friend Johannes Kepler dedicated " Strena seu nive sexangula " to him. (From hexagonal snow; see: Kepler conjecture ).>> ...