Hi Tony, I was interested read your note below on abebooks. They are the Amazon of used books, a remarkable world wide enterprise. On the internet nobody knows who you are and where you are from. I was interested because abebooks is physically based in Victoria, British Columbia, just down the road from me. It is a small world with few degrees of separation.
Regards, Roger Bailey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tony moss Sent: September 16, 2005 2:08 AM To: Sundial Mail List Subject: Re: cuboctahedron >Hein van Winkel wrote: > >The cuboctahedron is indeed a cube with the 8 corners cut. I see that abebooks < http://www.abebooks.com/ > list several used copies of "Mathematical Models" by Cundy & Rollett from about $8.00. This has always been my 'must have' sourcebook for all such things from tetrahedra to Möbius Strips and Klein Bottles. As a student it inspired my first harmonograph machine. It's worth looking just to experience abebooks' worldwide secondhand books database although sometimes the results can be a little odd, The database located a book on 'Theodolites' for me in a s/h bookshop that specialised in 'Theological' works!! Perhaps they thought it would come in handy for someone intending to "....survey the wondrous cross." Ouch! Tony Moss - -
