Investigation
of a molecule of water revealed the presence of twelve bodies from hydrogen
and the characteristic snake of oxygen, the encircling walls of the
chemical atoms being broken away. But here again, further observations are
necessary to substantiate details. The present paper is only offered as a
suggestion of an inviting line of research, promising interesting results
of a scientific character; the observations recorded have been repeated
several times and are not the work of a single investigator, and they are
believed to be correct so far as they go.
THE PLATONIC SOLIDS.
Some of our readers may be glad to have a drawing of the Platonic solids,
since they play so large a part in the building up of elements. The regular
solids are five, and five only; in each:
(1) The lines are equal.
(2) The angles are equal.
(3) The surfaces are equal.
[Illustration]
It will be seen that the tetrahedron is the fundamental form, the
three-sided pyramid on a triangular base, _i.e._, a solid figure formed
from four triangles. Two of these generate the cube and the octahedron;
five of these generate the dodecahedron and the icosahedron.
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