Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cuboctahedron Third Species
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cuboctahedron Third Species
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- Description
- This tan cut and folded paper model has 128 triangular faces. It shows what Wenninger calls the second stellation of the cubactahedron – Wheeler calls it the third species of the cuboctahedron. It can be described as a collection of twenty-four dipyramids added to a compound of a cube and a regular octahedron..
- A mark in ink on the model reads: Cuboctahedron /) (Third Species (/) A. Harry Wheeler (/) July-19, 1932. A mark in pencil on another face reads: 13 / 37 (/) RS29.
- Reference:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974, p. 69.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- date made
- 1932 07 19
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10.5 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm; 4 1/8 in x 4 11/32 in x 4 11/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.079
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.079
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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