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===Medieval Islam=== After the end of the Classical era, scholars in the Islamic civilisation continued to take the Greek knowledge forward (see [[Mathematics in medieval Islam]]).<ref>{{citation | last = Knorr | first = Wilbur | author-link = Wilbur Knorr | doi = 10.1016/0315-0860(83)90034-4 | issue = 1 | journal = Historia Mathematica | mr = 698139 | pages = 71–78 | title = On the transmission of geometry from Greek into Arabic | volume = 10 | year = 1983| doi-access = free }}</ref> The 9th century scholar [[Thabit ibn Qurra]] included the calculation of volumes in his studies,<ref>{{citation | last = Rashed | first = Roshdi | editor-last = Rashed | editor-first = Roshdi | contribution = Thābit ibn Qurra et l'art de la mesure | contribution-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V5PTZi77YxwC&pg=PA173 | language = fr | isbn = 9783110220780 | pages = 173–175 | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | series = Scientia Graeco-Arabica | title = Thābit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad | volume = 4 | year = 2009}}</ref> and wrote a work on the [[cuboctahedron]]. Then in the 10th century [[Abūl Wafā' Būzjānī|Abu'l Wafa]] described the convex regular and quasiregular spherical polyhedra.<ref>{{citation | last1 = Hisarligil | first1 = Hakan | last2 = Hisarligil | first2 = Beyhan Bolak | date = December 2017 | doi = 10.1007/s00004-017-0363-7 | issue = 1 | journal = Nexus Network Journal | pages = 125–152 | title = The geometry of cuboctahedra in medieval art in Anatolia | volume = 20| doi-access = free }}</ref>
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