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=== Architecture === Architects liked the idea of Plato's timeless [[Form (architecture)|forms]] that can be seen by the soul in the objects of the material world, but turned these shapes into more suitable for construction [[sphere]], [[cylinder]], [[cone]], and [[square pyramid]].{{sfn | Gelernter | 1995 | pp=50-51}} In particular, one of the leaders of [[neoclassicism]], [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]], was preoccupied with the architects' version of "Platonic solids".{{sfn | Gelernter | 1995 | pp=172-173}} <gallery mode="nolines" widths="250" heights="250"> File:Icosahedron-spinoza.jpg|Icosahedron as a part of [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]] monument in [[Amsterdam]] </gallery>
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