Dissected Rhomboid, Ross Surface Form #5 (incomplete)
Dissected Rhomboid, Ross Surface Form #5 (incomplete)
- Description
- This is the fifth in a series of models of plane figures (surface forms) designed by William Wallace Ross, a school superintendent and mathematics teacher in Fremont, Ohio. The unpainted wooden model is divided into two pieces, with the smaller piece missing.
- With the smaller piece, the model could be arranged either as a parallelogram or a rectangle. A paper label attached to the model reads: Dissected Rhomboid 4x6.
- Ross argued that the parallelogram (or, in his terminology, rhomboid), like the rectangle, was the product of its length and its altitude.
- Compare models 1985.0112.190 through 1985.0112.202.
- For further information about Ross models, including references, see 1985.0112.191.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1895
- maker
- Ross, W. W.
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Fremont
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 15 cm x 10 cm; 13/32 in x 5 29/32 in x 3 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1985.0112.196
- accession number
- 1985.0112
- catalog number
- 1985.0112.196
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wesleyan University
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Arithmetic Teaching
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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