Thursday, March 5, 2009 – Plato and the Platonic Solids

For today’s slice of history we visit Plato and his Platonic solids: Icosahedron, Dodecahedron, Octahedron, Hexahedron and Tetrahedron. You will recognize these as our characters from the “Hedron” family that guide us on many of the days.

Here we introduce the five regular Platonic Solids