The Archimedean solids are Named from the famed ancient Greek mathematician, Archimedes (287 BC – c. 212 BC) who discussed them in his lost work. It was the Greek mathematician, Pappus of Alexandria (290 – c. 350 AD), who reported Archimedes work in his own written work. Pappus’s work listed 13 polyhedra, what we now today call the Archimedean solids.During the Renaissance, artists and mathematicians rediscovered the 13 solids and in 1620, Johannes Kepler’s search for the solids was almost entir