What is a Rhombicuboctahedron, an Illustration by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration in Divina Proportione. 1509.
During the Renaissance, artists and mathematicians valued pure forms with symmetry.
Around 1620 Johannes Kepler had completed the rediscovery of the 13 polyhedra, as well as defined the prisms, antiprisms, and the non-convex solids known as Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra.
In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra.
“Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.”- Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher, and writer of music.
He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
