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Plato continued:
And there is a fifth figure (which is made out of twelve pentagons), the dodecahedron — this God used as a model for the twelvefold division of the Zodiac.

Later, people said the heavens were made of a fifth element called "aether" or the "quintessence".







You can read more about this in the Wikipedia article on aether.

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