We prove that some Banach spaces X have the property that every Banach
space that can be isometrically embedded in X can be isometrically an
d linearly embedded in X. We do not know if this is a general property
of Banach spaces. As a consequence we characterize for which ordinal
numbers alpha, beta there exists an isometric embedding between C-0 (a
lpha + 1) and C-0(beta + 1).