Читать книгу Shaped by Snow. Defending the Future of Winter онлайн
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Salt Lake City, Utah
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-948814-10-2
E-book ISBN: 978-1-948814-11-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019932478
Cover photo by Sam Watson, “Winter in the Wasatch,”
skier Sam Cohen in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah,
Cover design by Kathleen Metcalf
Interior design by Rachel Davis
Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
To little birds, wildflowers, barn owls, snowflakes, starlight, and swallow-tail butterflies
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Introduction
In such anxious reflection as this, I crossed the bridge, embarrassed by my discourtesy in having appeared before you without a New Year’s present … Just then by a happy chance water-vapour was condensed by the cold into snow, and specks of down fell here and there upon my coat, all with six corners and feathered radii. ’Pon my word, here was something smaller than any drop, yet with a pattern; here was the ideal New Year’s gift for the devotee of Nothing, the very thing for a mathematician to give, who has Nothing and receives Nothing, since it comes down from heaven and looks like a star.