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3D Geometry

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📜 History & Discovery

Plato · 5 Solids
Plato · 5 Solids
Archimedes · 250 BCE
Archimedes · 250 BCE
Cavalieri · 1635
Cavalieri · 1635

Euclid's Elements Book XI–XIII covered 3D solids and the Platonic solids. Archimedes computed volumes of cylinders and spheres (~250 BCE). Cavalieri's principle (1635) and integration (Newton/Leibniz) gave us general volume formulas.