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2 unusual facts about Regular polyhedron


Regular polyhedron

When these solids were all discovered and by whom is not known, but Theaetetus, (an Athenian), was the first to give a mathematical description of all five (Van der Waerden, 1954), (Euclid, book XIII).

Kepler's work, and the discovery since that time of Uranus and Neptune, have invalidated the Pythagorean idea.



see also

Mysterium Cosmographicum

This book explains Kepler's cosmological theory, based on the Copernican system, in which the five Pythagorean regular polyhedra dictate the structure of the universe and reflect God's plan through geometry.