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Tue, 2003 Nov 11
Plato Asserted That Universe Is Dodecahedron
When I previously commented on the confusion between a dodecahedron and a buckyball in reporting on recent interpretations of observations made by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, I hadn't remembered (or hadn't ever known) that Plato said that the dodecahedron was the shape "... which the god used for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven"; this in conjunction with his assigning the other four regular polyhedra to fire, earth, air, and water.