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Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 8

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In general, the attempt to give a shape to each of the simple bodies is unsound, for the reason, first, that they will not succeed in filling the whole. It is agreed that there are only three plane figures which can fill a space, the triangle, the square, and the hexagon, and only two solids, the pyramid and the cube. But the theory needs more than these because the elements which it recognizes are more in number.

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 8

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