He prefers a figural “attitude” to the pagan and primitive allegorisms and symbolisms, flags and emblems, which in his mind owe their strength and modern, global popularity to the powerful sense of history that the girual though had developed.
Zeolite A consists of truncated octahedra flanking the edges of a larger cube; they are connected along the edges by smaller cubes, and the truncated octahedra and cubes flank a great rhombicuboctahedron at the center (28).
What distinguished the atomists from their opponents was not the belief in tiny particles that make up matter, but the question of what separated them.