Geometrical etching of a polyhedral variation from "A True and Thorough Instruction in Geometry," 1543, by Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553), which included examples of the five Platonic solids -- tetrahedron, hexahedron (cube), octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron -- which, according to Plato, were the building blocks of the material world. Color enhanced.

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