Plato’s Foundations for Geometry

Geometry, Page 515, section 29, Prentice Hall Mathematics, Laurie E. Bass, Randall I. Charles, Art Johnson and Dan Kennedy, 2004

Just four lines and the five illustrations as pictured tell us even how much respect the geometry teachers had for the Platonic solids. These are all derivative from the sphere and all geometries are derivative from these five. All textbooks on geometry should begin with these five.