We drink water without energy, without structure, without dynamics or vitality. To sum up, all our tap water and bottled water currently meet all the worst possible conditions for quality drinking water. I have written a complete article on the subject on our blog. Aristotle named this fifth element, aithêr, (aether in Latin, "ether" in French) and postulated that the universe was made of this element, and that it was substantial to all the others, that it contained them all. Plato matched the dodecahedron with the Whole (Phaedo, 110b Timaeus, 55c), because it is the solid that most resembles the sphere. These small solids make dust when crumbled and break when grasped, a big difference from the smooth flow of waterįor Plato's fifth solid, the dodecahedron, Plato obscurely remarks, "the god used to arrange the constellations all over the sky". The most stable solid, the hexahedron (cube), represents the Earth. Water, the icosahedron, escapes from the hand when grasped as if it were made of tiny balls. Air is made up of the octahedron its tiny components are so soft that one can hardly feel them. There was a justification for these associations: the heat of Fire seems sharp and like a dagger (like the tetrahedron). He associated the tetrahedron with fire, the hexahedron with earth, the octahedron with air, the icosahedron with water, he linked the dodecahedron with the ether, the cosmos and the divine spirit. In his work The Timaeus, Plato associated the five solids with the five elements. They were named after Plato even though it was his student Euclid, at the school of Athens, who demonstrated them. Plato solids have been known since Neolithic times.
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