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Icosahedron

water · ὕδωρ

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The twenty-faced solid Plato assigns to water — roundest of the four element-bodies.

The icosahedron — twenty triangular faces, the roundest and most mobile of the four element-solids — is the body of water in the Timaeus. Its many faces let it roll and flow; built from the same basic triangle as fire and air, water can dissolve into and recombine with them. See the Platonic solids.

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