International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume F
Crystallography of biological macromolecules
Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 17.2, p. 357   | 1 | 2 |

Figure 17.2.1.1 

A. J. Olsona*

aThe Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Correspondence e-mail: olson@Scripps.edu

[Figure 17.2.1.1]
Figure 17.2.1.1

Model of a crystal structure proposed by René Häuy in Traite elementaire de Physique, Vol. 1 [Paris: De L'Imprimerie de Delance et Lesueur, 1803]. This model, proposed in 1784, was the first to connect the external facets of a crystal with an underlying regular arrangement of building blocks.