"It is... probable that we should ascribe to Pythagoras the Milesian view of a plurality of worlds, though... not... infinite ...Petron, one of the early Pythagoreans, said there were ...a hundred and eighty-three worlds arranged in a triangle; and Plato makes Timaios admit, when laying down ...only one world, that something might be urged in favour of ...five, as there are five regular solids."