Icosahedral Symmetry — I_h

The icosahedron has the largest symmetry group of any Platonic solid: 60 proper rotations (group I, isomorphic to A₅ — the alternating group on 5 elements) plus 60 improper rotations = 120 total. Axes: six 5-fold (vertices), ten 3-fold (faces), fifteen 2-fold (edges).

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5-fold axis (vertices)
3-fold axis (face centers)
2-fold axis (edge midpoints)
Group I: 60 rotations (isomorphic to A₅, the icosahedral group)