| Catalan Solids |
The Catalan solids are the duals of the Archimedean solids. They are named after the Belgian mathematician Eugene Catalan (1814-1894) who first described the complete set in 1865. The Rhombic Dodecahedron and Rhombic Triacontahedron were described in 1611 by Johannes Kepler [1]. Each Catalan solid has one type of face and a constant dihedral angle, and it possesses the same symmetry as its Archimedean dual.
| References: | [1] | Johannes Kepler, Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula [A New Year's Gift of Hexagonal Snow] (1611). |
| [2] | Johannes Kepler, translated by Colin Hardie, The Six-Cornered Snowflake. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1966). | |
| [3] | Eugène Catalan, Mémoire sur la Théorie des Polyèdres, Journal de l'École polytechnique 41 (1865), 1-71, +7 plates. |