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Because spheres are the best Platonic solid and so Earth must be a sphere, naturally.
by taneq 3y ago
Because spheres are the best Platonic solid and so Earth must be a sphere, naturally.
- HWR_14 3y agoSpheres aren't Platonic solids.
- taneq 3y agoWhoops, I was thinking "solids that were highly significant to Plato" (for which spheres definitely qualify) but of course, as you point out, they're not actually Platonic solids. Still Plato relate-o though: > Plato's Timaeus proposed that the body of the cosmos was made in the most perfect and uniform shape, that of a sphere containing the fixed stars. (Wikipedia, referencing F. M. Cornford, Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato)