Platonic solids, 1500 years before Plato
The Neolithic inhabitants of what now is Scotland were familiar with the five Platonic solids already by the year 2000 BC or so, as evidenced by these stone carvings dating from that period: Baez points to this paper for more on regular
Tales of the Dodecahedron
Should we count them as Platonic solids even if they’re rounded? That’s too tough a puzzle for me. Still less do I want to get into the question of whether the Platonic solids were invented or discovered!
Sacred Geometry
Sacred geometry can be related to the “Platonic solids,” or the five shapes that can divide a circle or sphere perfectly. The five forms are the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the hexahedron (cube), the icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
God is the Mind that Thinks the Universe
My Platonic assumptions leads me to understand that the reality that seems so solid to us in the physical world is not solid at all. That is born out by science; it's 90% nothing, it's made up of tiny electrical charges that are made up
Points on a sphere
There are unfortunately only five platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron each having 4, 8, 6, 20 and 12 vertices. So unless that is exactly the number of points you wish to have around your
Geometry 12.1 notes
Cross-section - intersection of the plane and the solid. pg. 720. Platonic Solids -. Regular Tetrahedron (4 faces, 4 vertices, 6 edges) - associated with the element of fire. Cube (6 faces, 8 vertices, 12 edges) -
Comment on King of Infinite Space by DR Lunsford
I remember reading “Regular Polytopes” as a kid and discovering empirically a fact about the Platonic solids. I was eating a lot of Dannon Yogurt at the time - the container was environment-friendly wax paper which however was rather
Platonic solids in Neolithic Scotland
Sixteen hundred years before Plato, they knew about the five regular Platonic solids
Faculty wish list
A jet pack to get me to work More hairin the right places World peace and an end to hunger Diet Coke with Lime in the faculty lounge For the Detroit Lions to win the Superbowl A pony Borders gift cards A pool A sixth platonic solid
platonic solids
The Flower of Life resides in everthing

Platonic Solids (PRIME)
Platonic Solids, an exposition from the Platonic Realms Interactive Math Encyclopedia.
Platonic Solids - EnchantedLearning.com
Platonic Solids: Cube, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron.
3Quarks - GIF Animations - Platonic Solids
Platonic solids are perfect regular solids with the following conditions: all sides are equal and all angles are the same and all the faces are identical.
platonic
All the faces of a Platonic solid are regular polygons of the same size, and all the vertices The same idea applies to all the other Platonic solids.
Geometry in Art & Architecture Unit 6
Finally we'll see how the Platonic solids were used as art motifs even before Plato, Plato associates four of the Platonic Solid with the four elements.
Platonic Solids
s = side length of a regular polygon or edge length of a Platonic solid These last three formulas apply only to Platonic solids.
Imaging the Imagined: The Platonic Solids & Polyhedra: plane
The Platonic solids were admired and adored by the ancient Greek mathematicians and anyone learning computer graphics rediscovers their wonder.
The Platonic solids
The diagrams below show the five Platonic solids. You can turn them around to view them from a different angle if you like: just point to the solid with
Platonic Solids and Plato's Theory of Everything
I suppose we could regard this as a Platonic solid with an infinite radius, which might have been useful in Plato's cosmology, but it doesn't seem to have
Tom Gettys - Platonic Solids
The Platonic Solids. rednote.gif A polygon is a two-dimensional shape bounded by straight line segments. A polygon is said to be regular if the edges are of platonic+solid: platonic+solid