Uniform polyhedra

@article{Coxeter1954UniformP,
  title={Uniform polyhedra},
  author={H. S. M. Coxeter and Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins and J. C. P. Miller},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences},
  year={1954},
  volume={246},
  pages={401 - 450}
}
Uniform polyhedra have regular faces meeting in the same manner at every vertex. Besides the five Platonic solids, the thirteen Archimedean solids, the four regular star-polyhedra of Kepler (1619) and Poinsot (1810), and the infinite families of prisms and antiprisms, there are at least fifty-three others, forty-one of which were discovered by Badoureau (1881) and Pitsch (1881). The remaining twelve were discovered by two of the present authors (H.S.M.C. and J.C.P.M.) between 1930 and 1932, but… 
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