Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Hexecontahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Hexecontahedron
- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model has faces that are irregular pentagons, arranged in twelve groups of five to form a ball-shaped figure with sixty faces.
- A mark in pencil reads: Aug 31-'26 (/) 475 (/) Dual no. 17.
- The pentagonal hexecontahedron is the dual of the snub dodecahedron. Wheeler;'s model of the snub dodecahedron has his number 17 (see for example MA.304723.062).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Other Terms
- Geometric Model; Bruckner Model
- date made
- 1926 08 31
- associated dates
- 1926 08 31 / 1926 08 31
- unspecified
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.269
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.269
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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