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This reminds me of Kepler’s idea that nested Platonic solids describe the relative orbit diameters of the (known) planets:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum



John Conway had a lecture where he discusses this (among other things):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63uFjlgNds


Wow, I had never watched one of his lectures before, that was a treat. Thank you!


>He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. By ordering the solids correctly—octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, and cube—Kepler found that the spheres correspond to the relative sizes of each planet's path around the Sun, generally varying from astronomical observations by less than 10%.


See also the Titius–Bode law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law




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