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§ 10. NOW, suppose any one pair of the tetrahedrons to be taken away from their positions in the primitive parallelepiped, arid, by purely translational motion, to be brought into position with their edges of length QD coincident, and the same to be done for each of the other two pairs. The sum of the six angles at the coincident edges being two right angles, the plane laces at the common edge will fit together, and the condition of parallelism in the motion of each pair fixes the order in which the three pairs come together in the new position, and shows us that in this position the three pairs form a parallelepiped essentially different from the primitive parallelepiped, provided that, for simplicity in our present considerations, we suppose each tetrahedron to be wholly sealene, that is to say, the seven lengths found amongst the edges to be all unequal. Next shift the tetrahedrons to bring the edges QE into coincidence, and next again to bring the edges QF into coincidence. Thus, including the primitive parallelepiped, we can make four different parallelepipeds in each of which six of the tetrahedrons have a common edge.
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On Homogeneous Division of Space.1 II. Nature 49, 469–471 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049469b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/049469b0