02/05/2021
The 13 Archimedian solids are named such because Archimedes (287-225 b.c.) was said to have discovered them and wrote about them in a now lost piece of text. Many people would reference his discovery over the centuries, but the rediscovery and publishing of the solids did not happen until Johannes Kepler around 1620 which means there were over a thousand years of mystery surrounding these polyhedra. These polyhedra are defined as semi-regular convex polyhedra composed of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices. These polyhedra can be made through the modification of the platonic solids (truncation, rectification, cantellation, etc.).
Casey House
Synergetics University: Bringing Synergetics, the work of Buckminster Fuller, design science, and nature’s coordinating to the forefront of humanities consideration.
[image description: “The 13 Archimedian Solids” it says at the top with illustrations showing the Truncated tetrahedron, truncated octahedron, snub cube, truncated cube, truncated icosahedron, snub dodecahedron, truncated dodecahedron, icosidodecahedron, rhombicosidodecahedron, truncated icosidodecahedron, cuboctahedron, triuncated cubotahedron, rhombicuboctahedron in different colored illustrations. End of description]
