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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 36, Number 1, pages 033-058 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2025_1_033

CLAS BJERKANDER’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLANTS AND ICE CRYSTALS SYMMETRY

Marina Voinova

Lake Vanern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, 542 86 Mariestad, Sweden.
Email: m.voinova@gmail.com

Abstract: This paper represents a short survey on symmetry works of an 18th century Swedish natural scientist and priest, Clas Bjerkander. This is also a historical tribute to Bjerkander who was a student of Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), and later, became an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1778. For the convenience of reading, in the present paper the original Bjerkander’s publication in the Proceedings of Academy 1775 is given in the translation from Old Swedish to English, for the first time.

Keywords: symmetry in physics, symmetry in biosciences, history of science.

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