Viewing the World from Different Angles:
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Paparazzo, Ernesto
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Article
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2013
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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English
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## Abstract The present article investigates a passage of the Timaeus in which Plato describes the construction of the pyramid. Scholars traditionally interpreted it as involving that the solid angle at the vertex of the pyramid is equal, or nearly so, to 180°, a value which they took to be that o