DODECAHEDRON

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 14

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) One of the five Platonic bodies or regular solids; its surface being composed of 12 equal and reguLar pentagons. The surface of a dodecahedron is found by multiplying the square of its side or linear edge into the number 20-G4.578; audits solidity by multiplying the cube of its side by 7-66312. [s. 370]