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== General and cited sources == * {{cite journal | last1 = Atiyah | first1 = Michael | author2-link = Paul Sutcliffe | author-link = Michael Atiyah | last2=Sutcliffe | first2=Paul | year = 2003 | title = Polyhedra in Physics, Chemistry and Geometry | journal = Milan J. Math. | volume = 71 | pages = 33β58 | doi = 10.1007/s00032-003-0014-1 | arxiv = math-ph/0303071 | bibcode = 2003math.ph...3071A | s2cid = 119725110 }} * {{cite book |first1 = Carl |last1 = Boyer |author1-link = Carl Benjamin Boyer |first2 = Uta |last2 = Merzbach |author2-link = Uta Merzbach |year = 1989 |title = A History of Mathematics |edition = 2nd |publisher = Wiley |isbn = 0-471-54397-7 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye }} * {{cite book | first = H. S. M. | last = Coxeter | author-link = H. S. M. Coxeter | year = 1973 | title = Regular Polytopes | title-link = Regular Polytopes (book) | edition = 3rd | publisher = Dover Publications | location = New York | isbn = 0-486-61480-8 }} * {{cite book | author = Euclid | author-link = Euclid | year = 1956 | title = The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Books 10β13 | editor-first = Thomas L. | editor-last = Heath | editor-link = Thomas Little Heath | edition = 2nd unabr. | publisher = Dover Publications | location = New York | isbn = 0-486-60090-4 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/thirteenbooksofe00eucl }} * [[Martin Gardner|Gardner, Martin]] (1987). ''The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions'', University of Chicago Press, Chapter 1: The Five Platonic Solids, {{isbn|0226282538}} * {{cite book | last=Gelernter | first=Mark | title=Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design Theory | publisher=[[Manchester University Press]] | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-7190-4129-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri6qER8Ej6kC | access-date=2024-02-12}} * [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler. Johannes]] ''Strena seu de nive sexangula (On the Six-Cornered Snowflake)'', 1611 paper by Kepler which discussed the reason for the six-angled shape of the snow crystals and the forms and symmetries in nature. Talks about platonic solids. * {{Cite journal| title = Lattice Textures in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals | author = Kleinert, Hagen | author-link = Hagen Kleinert | author2 = Maki, K. | name-list-style = amp | journal = Fortschritte der Physik | volume = 29 | issue = 5 | pages = 219β259 | year = 1981 | doi = 10.1002/prop.19810290503 | url = http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/75/75.pdf| bibcode = 1981ForPh..29..219K}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Lloyd | first1 = David Robert | year = 2012 | title = How old are the Platonic Solids? | journal = BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics | volume = 27 | issue = 3 | pages = 131β140 | doi = 10.1080/17498430.2012.670845 | s2cid = 119544202 }} * {{cite book | first=Anthony|last= Pugh | year= 1976 | title= Polyhedra: A visual approach | publisher= University of California Press Berkeley | location= California | isbn= 0-520-03056-7 }} * {{cite book | first = Hermann | last = Weyl | author-link = Hermann Weyl | year = 1952 | title = Symmetry | url = https://archive.org/details/symmetry0000weyl | url-access = registration | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, NJ | isbn = 0-691-02374-3 }} * Wildberg, Christian (1988). [https://books.google.com/books?id=af3XzdAvB_cC&pg=PA11 ''John Philoponus' Criticism of Aristotle's Theory of Aether'']. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 11β12. {{isbn|9783110104462}}.
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