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A regular dodecahedron or pentagonal dodecahedron [notes 1] is a dodecahedron composed of regular pentagonal faces, three meeting at each vertex. It is an example of Platonic solids , described as cosmic stellation by Plato in his dialogues, and it was used as part of Solar System proposed by Johannes Kepler .
In geometry, a dodecahedron (from Ancient Greek δωδεκάεδρον (dōdekáedron); from δώδεκα (dṓdeka) 'twelve' and ἕδρα (hédra) 'base, seat, face') or duodecahedron [1] is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid.
The icosahedral group of order 60, rotational symmetry group of the regular dodecahedron and the regular icosahedron. It is isomorphic to A 5. The conjugacy classes of I are: identity; 12 × rotation by ±72°, order 5; 12 × rotation by ±144°, order 5; 20 × rotation by ±120°, order 3; 15 × rotation by 180°, order 2
Model of the compound in a dodecahedron. The compound of five cubes is one of the five regular polyhedral compounds. It was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876. It is one of five regular compounds, and dual to the compound of five octahedra. It can be seen as a faceting of a regular dodecahedron. It is one of the stellations of the rhombic ...
Category:Platonic solids for the five convex regular polyhedra. Category:Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra for the four non-convex regular polyhedra. Category:Archimedean solids for the remaining convex semi-regular polyhedra, excluding prisms and antiprisms. Category:Quasiregular polyhedra for uniform polyhedra which are also edge-transitive.
The regular octahedron is dual to the cube, and the regular icosahedron is dual to the regular dodecahedron. The regular tetrahedron is self-dual, meaning its dual is the regular tetrahedron itself. [1] 4 regular star Kepler–Poinsot solids: great dodecahedron, small stellated dodecahedron, great icosahedron, and great stellated dodecahedron ...
Kepler (1619) discovered two of the regular Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra, the small stellated dodecahedron and great stellated dodecahedron. Louis Poinsot (1809) discovered the other two, the great dodecahedron and great icosahedron. The set of four was proven complete by Augustin-Louis Cauchy in 1813 and named by Arthur Cayley in 1859.
Dodecahedrane is a chemical compound, a hydrocarbon with formula C 20 H 20, whose carbon atoms are arranged as the vertices (corners) of a regular dodecahedron. Each carbon is bound to three neighbouring carbon atoms and to a hydrogen atom. This compound is one of the three possible Platonic hydrocarbons, the other two being cubane and ...