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| | |  Flower of Life: Encyclopedia - MerkabaThe word Merkaba (Hebrew: מרכבה "chariot, tank", derived from the ancient Hebrew consonantal root r-k-b with general meaning "to ride (an animal, in a chariot)") is used in the Bible (Ezekiel 1:4-26) to refer to the throne-chariot of god, the four-wheeled vehicle driven by four Cherubim, each of which has four wings and four faces (of a man, lion, ox, and eagle). In medieval Judaism, the beginning of the book of Ezekiel was regarded as the most mystical passage in the Bible, and its study was discouraged, except by mature individuals with an extensive groun ...
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| | | | Flower of Life: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Inscribed Platonic polyhedra When the Platonic polyhedra are inscribed in a sphere, they occupy the following percentages of that sphere's volume:
Tetrahedron: 12.2518%
Cube: 36.7553%
Octahedron: 31.8310%
Dodecahedron: 66.4909%
Icosahedron: 60.5461%
The Platonic solids may be seen as increasingly better approximations to that sphere. (The Archimedean solids and geodesic domes are in many ways even better approximations to the sphere).
However, either the dodecahedron or the icosahedron may b ...
See also:Platonic solid, Platonic solid - Table, Platonic solid - Limited number of Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Dual polyhedra, Platonic solid - Origins of name, Platonic solid - Ancient symbolism, Platonic solid - Other symbolism, Platonic solid - Inscribed Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Uses Read more here: » Platonic solid: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Inscribed Platonic polyhedra |
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| | | | Flower of Life: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Uses The shapes are often used to make dice, because dice of these shapes can be made fair. 6-sided dice are very common, but the other numbers are commonly used in role-playing games. Such dice are commonly referred to as D followed by the number of faces (d8, d20 etc.).
The tetrahedron, cube, and octahedron, are found naturally in crystal structures. The dodecahedron is combinatorially identical to the pyritohedron (in that both have twelve pentagonal faces), which is one of the possible crystal structures of pyrite. However, the pyritohedron is not a regular dodecahedron, but ra ...
See also:Platonic solid, Platonic solid - Table, Platonic solid - Limited number of Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Dual polyhedra, Platonic solid - Origins of name, Platonic solid - Ancient symbolism, Platonic solid - Other symbolism, Platonic solid - Inscribed Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Uses Read more here: » Platonic solid: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Uses |
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| | | | Flower of Life: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Dual polyhedra Connecting the centers of all the pairs of adjacent faces of any platonic solid produces another (smaller) platonic solid. The number of faces and vertices is interchanged, while the number of edges of the two is the same.
The relationship between such a pair of polyhedra is called being each other's dual.
The dual of a tetrahedron is another tetrahedron.
The dual of an octahedron is a cube, and vice versa.
The dual of a dodecahedron is an ...
See also:Platonic solid, Platonic solid - Table, Platonic solid - Limited number of Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Dual polyhedra, Platonic solid - Origins of name, Platonic solid - Ancient symbolism, Platonic solid - Other symbolism, Platonic solid - Inscribed Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Uses Read more here: » Platonic solid: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Dual polyhedra |
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| | | | Flower of Life: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Ancient symbolism Plato conceived the four classical elements as atoms with the geometrical shapes of four of the five platonic solids that had been discovered by the Pythagoreans (in the Timaeus). These are, of course, not the true shapes of atoms; but it turns out that they are some of the true shapes of packed atoms and molecules, namely crystals: The mineral salt sodium chloride occurs in cubic crystals, fluorite (calcium fluoride) in oc ...
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| | | | Flower of Life: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Other symbolism Historically, Johannes Kepler followed the custom of the Renaissance in making mathematical correspondences, and identified the five platonic solids with the five planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn which themselves represented the five classical elements.
Two-dimensional images of each of the Platonic solids are found within Metatron's Cube, a construct which originates from joining ...
See also:Platonic solid, Platonic solid - Table, Platonic solid - Limited number of Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Dual polyhedra, Platonic solid - Origins of name, Platonic solid - Ancient symbolism, Platonic solid - Other symbolism, Platonic solid - Inscribed Platonic polyhedra, Platonic solid - Uses Read more here: » Platonic solid: Encyclopedia II - Platonic solid - Other symbolism |
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