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The fourth book of 'Unterweisung der Messung' by Albrecht Durer, which was published in 1525, contained foldable polyhedral nets for the five platonic solids, the truncated tetrahedron, the cuboctahedron, the truncated octahedron, the truncated cube, the rhombicuboctahedron, the truncated cuboctahedron, the snub cube and an eighteen sided solid made by adding pyramids to both hexagonal faces of a hexagonal prism as well as a set of sixteen connected globus gores.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

According to 'A History of Folding in Mathematics' by Michael Freedman, published by Birkhauser in 2018, a revised edition, published in 1538, also included nets for the truncated icosahedron and the icosidodecahedron.

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