A polyhedron that can be inscribed in a sphere and whose faces are congruent regular polygons.
- There are five regular convex polygons. They are called Platonic solids.
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- There are also four regular non-convex polyhedra, which are called regular star polyhedra.
They are the small stellated dodecahedron, the great stellated dodecahedron, the great dodecahedron and the great icosahedron.This is a small stellated dodecahedron; it is made up of 60 congruent triangles. It was discovered by Kepler in 1619:
A sculpture of a small stellated dodecahedron stands in the district of Bouzaréah in Algiers: