The Republic
   Book
 1 7    |         we proceeded at once to solids in revolution, instead of
 2 7    |   revolution, instead of taking solids in themselves; whereas after
 3 7    |         astronomy, or motion of solids. ~True, he said. ~Then assuming


Theaetetus
   Part
 4 Intro|      the first work on the Five Solids. But no early authority
 5 Text |     squares; and the same about solids.~SOCRATES: Excellent, my


Timaeus
   Part
 6 Intro|       the world was composed of solids, between the elements of
 7 Intro|        are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained
 8 Intro|       and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes,
 9 Intro|         the three first regular solids are formed—first, the equilateral
10 Intro| geometrical figures have formed solids? We must reply again that
11 Intro|        speaking of surfaces and solids compounded of prime numbers (
12 Intro|    there were only five regular solids was already known to the
13 Intro|       their transformation into solids. The first solid is a regular
14 Intro|         transformations of real solids, but of imaginary geometrical
15 Intro|   should speak of each of these solids as a possible world in itself,
16 Intro|        by which surfaces become solids; and he characteristically
17 Intro|     compare the construction of solids out of surfaces in his account