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11 There are many other examples of this sort of thing, said I, which I shall pass over. I shall merely adduce Plato,Plato, Timaeus, 31 a. who, in speaking about a single world, says that if there are others besides ours, and ours is not the only one, then there are five altogether and no more. Cf.Moralia, 421 f, 422 f, 430 b, and 887 b. Nevertheless, even if this world of ours is the only one ever created, as Aristotle De Caelo, i. 8-9 (276 a 18). also thinks, even ours, he says, is in a way put together through the union of five worlds, of which one is of earth, another of water, a third of fire, a fourth of air; and the fifth, the heavens, others call light, and others aether, and others call this very thing a fifth substance (Quintessence), which alone of the bodies has by nature a circular motion that is not the result of any compelling powrer or any other incidental cause. Wherefore also Plato, apparently noting the five most beautiful and complete forms among those found in Nature, pyramid, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron, appropriately assigned each to each.