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harmonious in the sacred meaning, you then placed the 13 Archimedean bodies!
Figure 60. The original arrangement of 13 semiregular polyhedra.
After all, all the basic symbols and signs are observed in this order as well as the outline
of the general figure in the form of the diagonal cross consisting of the bodies
themselves, the four Aspects and the center being marked. There is an evolution from
simple forms to more complex ones. People, on the other hand, place these semiregular
polyhedra in a slightly different manner, referring to the fact that they were mentioned in
the works of ancient Greek scholar Archimedes. But today it is an open secret that the
discovery of this knowledge is only attributed to his name. As a rule, there is a link
typical for such cases, saying that the evidence of the given ancient scholar on this issue
is lost. I got interested in how he could have known about these 13 figures?
Archimedes came from a noble family and studied various sciences, including geometry,
on his own. In the largest cultural center of that time, the Egyptian city of Alexandria
(which was then under the dominion of the Greeks), as is known, the famous library of
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