单词 | platonic body |
释义 | > as lemmasPlatonic body Platonic body n. Geometry = Platonic solid n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > regular solids Platonical body1571 Platonic body1704 Platonic solid1762 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Platonick Bodies. See Regular Bodies. 1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 282 The five Platonick Bodies, so much fam'd, Pythagoras first found, Plato explain'd; Euclide on them Immortal Glory gain'd. 1873 J. Booth Treat. Some New Geom. Methods I. p. xi That the principle of Duality should not have been discovered by the great geometers of Ancient Greece is the more remarkable, as the five regular solids, the Platonic bodies as they were called, were with them a favourite subject of speculation. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xvii. 439 If the regular solids are restricted to five, those five bodies (later called the Platonic bodies) must each have some definite meaning. 1972 Amer. Statistician 26 48/2 Kepler..fitted a sequence of platonic bodies (regular polyhedra), inscribed one within the other, to the planetary mean distances..and he set enough store by this to have a beautiful model constructed. < as lemmas |
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