Archimedean solids

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Archimedean solids are a set of thirteen highly symmetric, semi-regular convex polyhedra characterized by identical vertices and faces composed of more than one type of regular polygon.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Archimedean solids canonical 3
Archimedean solid 1
Catalan solids 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf class of polyhedra
mathematical object
appliedIn architecture
art
chemistry
crystallography
classificationCriterion vertex configuration
contrastWith Johnson solids are not vertex-transitive
Platonic solids have only one type of face
hasElement cuboctahedron
linked to: Archimedean solids

icosidodecahedron
rhombicosidodecahedron
rhombicuboctahedron
snub cube
linked to: Archimedean solids

snub dodecahedron
truncated cube
linked to: rhombicuboctahedron

truncated cuboctahedron
truncated dodecahedron
truncated icosahedron
truncated icosidodecahedron
truncated octahedron
truncated tetrahedron
hasHistoricalAttribution described by Archimedes (work now lost)
rediscovered and published by Johannes Kepler
hasNumberOfElements 13
hasProperty can be inscribed in a sphere
convex
each edge lies between two faces
each solid is edge-transitive only in some cases
each vertex has same arrangement of faces
faces are regular polygons
faces of more than one type of regular polygon
finite number of edges
finite number of faces
finite number of vertices
highly symmetric
not all faces are congruent in a given solid
vertex-transitive
namedAfter Archimedes of Syracuse
linked to: Archimedes
relatedTo Catalan solids
linked to: Archimedean solids

Johnson solids
Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra
Platonic solids
studiedIn geometry
polyhedral combinatorics
subclassOf convex polyhedra
semiregular polyhedra
uniform polyhedra
uses regular polygons as faces

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Archimedes knownFor Archimedean solids
Archimedes hasConceptNamedAfter Archimedean solid
linked to: Archimedean solids
Platonic solids areContrastedWith Archimedean solids
Archimedean solids relatedTo Catalan solids
linked to: Archimedean solids
Archimedean solids hasElement cuboctahedron
linked to: Archimedean solids
Archimedean solids hasElement snub cube
linked to: Archimedean solids
Regular Polytopes covers Archimedean solids