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Some Archimedean solids were portrayed in the works of artists and mathematicians during the Renaissance. The elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudorhombicuboctahedron is an extra polyhedron with regular faces and congruent vertices, but it is not generally counted as an Archimedean solid because it is not vertex-transitive .
The solid angle, Ω, at the vertex of a Platonic solid is given in terms of the dihedral angle by Ω = q θ − ( q − 2 ) π . {\displaystyle \Omega =q\theta -(q-2)\pi .\,} This follows from the spherical excess formula for a spherical polygon and the fact that the vertex figure of the polyhedron { p , q } is a regular q -gon.
1 Platonic solids (regular convex polyhedra) W1 to W5. 2 Archimedean solids (Semiregular) W6 to W18. 3 Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (Regular star polyhedra) W20, ...
Picture Name Schläfli symbol Vertex/Face configuration exact dihedral angle (radians) dihedral angle – exact in bold, else approximate (degrees) Platonic solids (regular convex)
1.1 Platonic solids. 1.2 Achiral Archimedean solids. 1.3 Achiral Catalan solids. ... Dual Archimedean solid Faces Edges Vertices Face Polygon rhombic triacontahedron
The thirteen Archimedean solids. The elongated square gyrobicupola (also called a pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron), a Johnson solid, has identical vertex figures (3.4.4.4) but because of a twist it is not vertex-transitive. Branko Grünbaum argued for including it as a 14th Archimedean solid. An infinite series of convex prisms.
[W] Wenninger, 1974, has 119 figures: 1–5 for the Platonic solids, 6–18 for the Archimedean solids, 19–66 for stellated forms including the 4 regular nonconvex polyhedra, and ended with 67–119 for the nonconvex uniform polyhedra.
Truncated icosahedron, one of the Archimedean solids illustrated in De quinque corporibus regularibus. The five Platonic solids (the regular tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron) were known to della Francesca through two classical sources: Timaeus, in which Plato theorizes that four of them correspond to the classical elements making up the world (with the fifth, the ...