a dialogue on platonic solids between a man and a woman, in the scenario of the School of Athens of Raffaello.
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The regularities of platonic solids are extraordinarily suggestive, regular polyhedra cannot be more than five, they have been widely studied since ancient times, among others by Pythagoras and Plato, and the latter, in Timaeus, associated each of them with an element: the fire to the tetrahedron, the earth to the cube, the air to the octahedron, the water to the icosahedron, while in the Phædo he believed that the dodecahedron was the shape of the universe, the fifth element, the quintessence of spagyric medieval alchemy and somehow today the dark matter of modern scientists. The School of Athens of Raffaello represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other, with Plato at the center of the scene with Aristotele.
The man and the woman have vertical ▥ and horizontal ▤ lines with which I wanted in some way to represent the duality, the opposites and the complementarity of the male and female.
🔊 The audio track is the intro of Kara's Wise Counsel (Numbers) by duckett (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/duckett/61326 Ft: Kara Square.
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