povray wrote:
 > Wicked picture but the title make me curious.  I understand that plato
 > refers to the platonic solids ... but why "tyranny"?


The platonic solid imposed a notion of beauty that wasn't realistic for
our universe. They led, for example, Kepler, as late as 1619, to devise
an absurdly complicated model for the solar system composed of embedded
platonic solids (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler )

Because the then-measured orbit gaps corresponded vaguely to the ratios
of said solids in that particular arrangement,then, of course, that must
be it! The Ancient knew so much more than the europeans of that era
(at least that the way they perceived it then; the Renaissance took its
root in the Classics and the Ancients.) I'm sure Kepler felt like he
unraveled some knowledge of the Ancient instead of being mislead by some


Fortunately, it didn't keep it from getting his famous three laws right.


All those reasons and that the title sounded way cooler than "platonics"



Best,

	S.

Steven Pigeon, Ph. D.
ste### [at] videotronca

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