DODECAHEDRON

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 10

(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 Ihe square of iis side or linear edge into the number 20 64578: and its solidily by multiplying the cube of its side by 7 66312. [s. 374]