Davidjayjordan
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Because some have never studied biology and the creative basis for all living matter, but just study inanimate unconnected heavenly trivia. Allow me to suggest that the geometry that the ancients knew and passed on in their Mystery Schools is the very basis that would help you connect up what you can't comprehend about all of creation.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PlatonicSolid.html
The Platonic solids, also called the regular solids or regular polyhedra, are convex polyhedra with equivalent faces composed of congruent convex regular polygons. There are exactly five such solids (Steinhaus 1999, pp. 252-256): the cube, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron, as was proved by Euclid in the last proposition of the Elements. The Platonic solids are sometimes also called "cosmic figures" (Cromwell 1997), although this term is sometimes used to refer collectively to both the Platonic solids and Kepler-Poinsot solids (Coxeter 1973).
The Platonic solids were known to the ancient Greeks, and were described by Plato in his Timaeus ca. 350 BC. In this work, Plato equated the tetrahedron with the "element" fire, the cube with earth, the icosahedron with water, the octahedron with air, and the dodecahedron with the stuff of which the constellations and heavens were made (Cromwell 1997) (END OF EXCERPT)
And so understanding these COSMIC FIGURES in our Earthly world in its biology, is extremely useful... even as Kepler which Wolley refers to... was so inspired concerning...
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/platsol/index.asp
The Greeks, who were inclined to see in mathematics something of the nature of religious truth, found this business of there being exactly five Platonic solids very compelling. The philosopher Plato concluded that they must be the fundamental building blocks – the atoms – of nature, and assigned to them what he believed to be the essential elements of the universe. He followed the earlier philosopher Empedocles in assigning fire to the tetrahedron, earth to the cube, air to the octahedron, and water to the icosahedron. To the dodecahedron Plato assigned the element cosmos, reasoning that, since it was so different from the others in virtue of its pentagonal faces, it must be what the stars and planets are made of.
Although this might seem naive to us, we should be careful not to smile at it too much: these were powerful ideas, and led to real knowledge.
As late as the 16th century, for instance, Johannes Kepler was applying a similar intuition to attempt to explain the motion of the planets. Early in his life he concluded that the distances of the orbits, which he assumed were circular, were related to the Platonic solids in their proportions. This model is represented in this woodcut from his treatise Mysterium Cosmographicum.(END OF EXCERPT)
For these giants on past science that fought the demented church system and sometimes the political system used the konledge of the ancients to go further.
For listen to what KEPLER had to say...not just about the Platonis SOLIDS but about the GOLDEN SECTION...
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi3DGeom.html
Kepler called the golden section "the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio", as did the Greeks. He wrote the following about it:
"Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel." (END OF EXCERPT)
And notice now he mentioned Pythagorus, who obviously got his training from the Egyptians, as there is nothing new under the SUN, and modern man isn't as advanced as some modern day arrogant scientists assume, especially if they don;t know these BASICS.
Anyway do the resaerch and find out that modern science has found each of these Platonic Shapes NOW.
I'm rather busy, but the truth of harmony, geometry, and the Microcosm and Macrocosm always comes out for those that have the courage to seek. ... for when you seek you find, in the real living world.
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/ElementsNumbers.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PlatonicSolid.html
The Platonic solids, also called the regular solids or regular polyhedra, are convex polyhedra with equivalent faces composed of congruent convex regular polygons. There are exactly five such solids (Steinhaus 1999, pp. 252-256): the cube, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron, as was proved by Euclid in the last proposition of the Elements. The Platonic solids are sometimes also called "cosmic figures" (Cromwell 1997), although this term is sometimes used to refer collectively to both the Platonic solids and Kepler-Poinsot solids (Coxeter 1973).
The Platonic solids were known to the ancient Greeks, and were described by Plato in his Timaeus ca. 350 BC. In this work, Plato equated the tetrahedron with the "element" fire, the cube with earth, the icosahedron with water, the octahedron with air, and the dodecahedron with the stuff of which the constellations and heavens were made (Cromwell 1997) (END OF EXCERPT)
And so understanding these COSMIC FIGURES in our Earthly world in its biology, is extremely useful... even as Kepler which Wolley refers to... was so inspired concerning...
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/platsol/index.asp
The Greeks, who were inclined to see in mathematics something of the nature of religious truth, found this business of there being exactly five Platonic solids very compelling. The philosopher Plato concluded that they must be the fundamental building blocks – the atoms – of nature, and assigned to them what he believed to be the essential elements of the universe. He followed the earlier philosopher Empedocles in assigning fire to the tetrahedron, earth to the cube, air to the octahedron, and water to the icosahedron. To the dodecahedron Plato assigned the element cosmos, reasoning that, since it was so different from the others in virtue of its pentagonal faces, it must be what the stars and planets are made of.
Although this might seem naive to us, we should be careful not to smile at it too much: these were powerful ideas, and led to real knowledge.
As late as the 16th century, for instance, Johannes Kepler was applying a similar intuition to attempt to explain the motion of the planets. Early in his life he concluded that the distances of the orbits, which he assumed were circular, were related to the Platonic solids in their proportions. This model is represented in this woodcut from his treatise Mysterium Cosmographicum.(END OF EXCERPT)
For these giants on past science that fought the demented church system and sometimes the political system used the konledge of the ancients to go further.
For listen to what KEPLER had to say...not just about the Platonis SOLIDS but about the GOLDEN SECTION...
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi3DGeom.html
Kepler called the golden section "the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio", as did the Greeks. He wrote the following about it:
"Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel." (END OF EXCERPT)
And notice now he mentioned Pythagorus, who obviously got his training from the Egyptians, as there is nothing new under the SUN, and modern man isn't as advanced as some modern day arrogant scientists assume, especially if they don;t know these BASICS.
Anyway do the resaerch and find out that modern science has found each of these Platonic Shapes NOW.
I'm rather busy, but the truth of harmony, geometry, and the Microcosm and Macrocosm always comes out for those that have the courage to seek. ... for when you seek you find, in the real living world.
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/ElementsNumbers.html
