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Incidentally, you may be interested in the article by Joseph Malkevitch, "Milestones in the history of polyhedra," which appeared in Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach, Marjorie Senechal and George Fleck, editors, pages 80--9280-92. Birkhauser, Boston, 1988. There he makes the case (following Grünbaum) that there should be 14 Archimedean solids rather than 13, including the pseudorhombicuboctahedron(!) as the 14th.
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Incidentally, you may be interested in the article by Joseph Malkevitch, "Milestones in the history of polyhedra," which appeared in Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach, Marjorie Senechal and George Fleck, editors, pages 80--92. Birkhauser, Boston, 1988. There he makes the case (following GrunbaumGrünbaum) that there should be 14 Archimedean solids rather than 13, including the pseudorhombicuboctahedron(!) as the 14th.
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Incidentally, you may be interested in the article by Joseph Malkevitch, "Milestones in the history of polyhedra," which appeared in Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach, Marjorie Senechal and George Fleck, editors, pages 80--92. Birkhauser, Boston, 1988. There he makes the case (following Grunbaum) that there should be 14 Archimedean solids rather than 13, including the pseudorhombicuboctahedron(!) as the 14th.