9 thoughts on “ Platonic Bodies ”

1. Platonic Solids. more There are five Platonic Solids. Each one is a polyhedron (a solid with flat faces). They are special because every face is a regular polygon of the same size and shape. Example: each face of the cube is a square. They are also convex (no "dents" or indentations in them).

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2. Synonyms for Platonic bodies in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for Platonic bodies. 5 synonyms for Platonic solid: ideal solid, Platonic body, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron.

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3. Plato believed that man is primarily made up of soul, and that man’s soul is trapped in a body, much like being trapped in a prison. This is the basis for Plato’s phrase “ soma sema ” which means the body is a prison or tomb for the soul. To Plato, salvation occurs when the soul is set free from this prison-body.

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4. Dec 20,  · Platonic Solids govern atomic structures and planetary orbit. Learn how to decode the mysteries of the observable universe through sacred geometry.

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5. According to Plato, the body and the soul are separate entities. The soul is capable of existing before life of the body and after death of the body and it is constant, unchanging and non-physical (invisible). The soul resembles what is divine, immortal, and. Read More.

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6. Apr 20,  · Platonic Bodies are regular polyhedra. Their faces are identical regular polygons. As shown by Euklid ( BC), there exist 5 Platonic bodies. Platonic spheres are the central projections of the faces of the Platonic bodies onto the surface of the circumscribing unit sphere, R=1. The vertices are corners in the case of bodies and nodes in the.

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7. 1. Platonic body - any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent ideal solid, Platonic solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron polyhedron - a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces.

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8. Definition of platonic body.: any of the five regular geometrical solids comprising the simple tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.

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9. Platonism had a profound effect on Western thought. Platonism at least affirms the existence of abstract objects, which are asserted to exist in a third realm distinct from both the sensible external world and from the internal world of consciousness, and is the opposite of nominalism.

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