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Semisolid Polyhedra

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This Demonstration shows Kepler's two semisolid polyhedra.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (August 2014)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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Kepler found two semisolid polyhedra: one composed of star octagons, the other of star decagons [1, pp. 173–174]. These can be completed to uniform polyhedra.

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[1] P. R. Cromwell, Polyhedra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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