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Figures for George W. Hart's
In the Palm of Leonardo's Hand: Modeling Polyhedra

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Fig. 3. "Elevated icosidodecahedron" from the manuscript version of De divina proportione. It is a nonconvex construction of 120 equilateral triangles arranged with icosahedral symmetry. Three-sided and five-sided pyramids have been erected on the faces of the underlying icosidodecahedron, which consists of twenty triangles and twelve pentagons. | top of page | return to text |

Figure 3 for George Hart 

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