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    What did Plato compare the universe with and which dialogue contains the cosmological theories he promulgated?

    Question #84145. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Aug 02 07 10:33 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, is Plato's model for the whole universe.

    Plato's Timaeus posits the existence of a fifth element (corresponding to the fifth remaining Platonic solid, the dodecahedron) called quintessence, of which the cosmos itself is made.


    http://turnbull.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Plato&CONTEXT=1


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_%28dialogue%29

    Aug 03 07, 5:07 AM

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