Contents Introduction The Five Platonic Solids The Thirteen Archimedean Solids Prisms, Antiprisms, and Other Polyhedra The Four Kepler-Poinsot Solids Other Stellations or Compounds Some Other Uniform Polyhedra Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Notes

1. Thomas L. Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1921), pp. 159-60.
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2. H. S. M. Coxeter, M. S. Longuet-Higgins, and J. C. P. Miller, ‘-“ Uniform Polyhedra (“Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London,” Ser. A, Vol. CCXLVI, No. 196 [London: Cambridge University Press, 1954]), p. 402.
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3. Heath, op. cit., p. 162.
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4. H. S. M. Coxeter, P. DuVal, H. T. Flather, and J. F. Petrie, The Fifty-nine Icosahedra (“Mathematical Series,” No. 6 [Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1938]), pp. 8-18.
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5. Coxeter, Longuet-Higgins, and Miller, op. cit., pp. 40 1-50.
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6. Max Brueckner, Vielecke und Vielflache (Leipzig: Teubner, 1900).
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7. Coxeter, Longuet-Higgins, and Miller, op. cit., p. 402.
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8. H. S. M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes (1st ed.; London: Methuen & Co., l948),p. ix.
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9. Ibid. (2nd ed.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1963), p. viii.
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10. Felix Klein, Lectures on the Icosahedron (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), esp. chap. i, “The Regular Solids and the Theory of Groups.”
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