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The Platonic Solids

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Fire, 'dryness' as has smallest volume for its surface area Universe, as there are 12 signs of the zodiac Earth, a stable structure Water, 'wetness' as has largest volume for its surface area Air, mobile; rotating freely about oposite vertices platonic solids; click to return from java animation

the platonic solids

 

Tetrahedron

 

Octahedron

Cube

 

Icosahedron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dodecahedron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Footnotes

a   This uses a non-commercial Java 1.1 applet by Martin Kraus. Use the mouse to rotate the structures. [Back]

 

 

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