Note 33 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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Phaedo, 109. Plato thought that the universe, as well as the earth, is a sphere because the sphere is the most perfect of forms (Timaeus, 33). An obscure mathematical passage, Timaeus, 55, seems to liken the universe to a dodecahedron. See the Dialogues, Jowett’s transl., 1892, vol. iii, p. 363, and Boffito, Leggenda, 1903, p. 584.