Dialogue

 1 Intro| rectilinear figures are made up of triangles. Of triangles there are
 2 Intro|           made up of triangles. Of triangles there are two kinds; one
 3 Intro|      another...Of the two kinds of triangles the equal-sided has but
 4 Intro|             Let us then choose two triangles; one, the isosceles, the
 5 Intro|          and composed of isosceles triangles. To the earth then, which
 6 Intro|            by the sharpness of the triangles, until at length, coalescing
 7 Intro|        latter penetrating even the triangles. Air when strongly condensed
 8 Intro|           which does not reach the triangles, and even when not strongly
 9 Intro|         out of such of the primary triangles as are adapted by their
10 Intro|            of every animal has the triangles new and closely locked together,
11 Intro|            nurtured on milk. These triangles are sharper than those which
12 Intro|          But as life advances, the triangles wear out and are no longer
13 Intro|          the bonds which unite the triangles of the marrow become undone,
14 Intro|         depends on the form of the triangles, and cannot be protracted
15 Intro|       construction; in Pythagorean triangles or in proportions of 1:2:
16 Intro|          The real elements are two triangles, the rectangular isosceles
17 Intro|           the combination of these triangles which exist in an infinite
18 Intro| equilateral or twenty-four scalene triangles. Each of the four solid
19 Intro|            is composed of the same triangles, which unite as eight equilateral
20 Intro|         unite as eight equilateral triangles, and make one solid angle
21 Intro|            120 rectangular scalene triangles. The fourth regular solid,
22 Intro|      combination of four isosceles triangles into one square and of six
23 Intro|     combination of either of these triangles, but each of its faces may
24 Intro|     regarded as composed of thirty triangles of another kind. Probably
25 Intro|           of 12 x 30 = 360 scalene triangles (Platon. Quaest.), representing
26 Intro|           them into their original triangles; and (3) a reunion of them
27 Intro|          being composed of similar triangles, are interchangeable; earth,
28 Intro|          earth, however, which has triangles peculiar to itself, is capable
29 Intro|            of form in the original triangles, but upon differences of
30 Intro|          are formed of rectangular triangles variously combined into
31 Intro|        different sizes of the same triangles form the lesser species
32 Intro|         out of the finest sorts of triangles, and is the connecting link
33 Intro|          superior sharpness of the triangles forming the substances of
34 Intro|      freshest and acutest forms of triangles are those that are found
35 Intro|        atoms of Democritus and the triangles of Plato? The ancients should
36 Intro|          these atoms resembled the triangles of Plato in being too small
37 Timae|  rectilinear figure is composed of triangles; and all triangles are originally
38 Timae|     composed of triangles; and all triangles are originally of two kinds,
39 Timae|       their nature. Now of the two triangles, the isosceles has one form
40 Timae|          beautiful of all the many triangles (and we need not speak of
41 Timae|             Then let us choose two triangles, out of which fire and the
42 Timae|       there are generated from the triangles which we have selected four
43 Timae|           are dissolved into their triangles, if they become one, they
44 Timae|         lesser side. When two such triangles are joined at the diagonal,
45 Timae|      repeated three times, and the triangles rest their diagonals and
46 Timae|      triangle is formed out of six triangles; and four equilateral triangles,
47 Timae|    triangles; and four equilateral triangles, if put together, make out
48 Timae|          is formed out of the same triangles, which unite as eight equilateral
49 Timae|         unite as eight equilateral triangles and form one solid angle
50 Timae|          in five plane equilateral triangles, having altogether twenty
51 Timae|            compounded of four such triangles, joining their right angles
52 Timae|         such a nature. Now, of the triangles which we assumed at first,
53 Timae|      structure of the two original triangles. For either structure did
54 Timae|         from the inequality of the triangles. Water, again, admits in
55 Timae|        latter penetrating even the triangles. But nothing can dissolve
56 Timae|          not reach the elements or triangles; or if not strongly condensed,
57 Timae|           took such of the primary triangles as were straight and smooth,
58 Timae|        creature when young has the triangles of each kind new, and may
59 Timae|     nurtured on milk. Now when the triangles out of which meats and drinks
60 Timae|          older and weaker than the triangles already there, the frame
61 Timae|       better of them and its newer triangles cut them up, and so the
62 Timae|          But when the roots of the triangles are loosened by having undergone
63 Timae|        when the bonds by which the triangles of the marrow are united
64 Timae|      smoothest and oiliest sort of triangles, dropping like dew from
65 Timae|       having a fixed span, and the triangles in us are originally framed