Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler or a Student, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler or a Student, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron
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- Description
- The faces of this cut and folded tan paper model are twelve pentagrams (star-shaped figured) that would fit in plans of a regular dodecahedron and twenty equilateral triangles (the triangles are cut). a mark on the model reads: 476. Another mark reads: Donovan (/) 4/9/34.
- Compare MA.304723.270 and MA.304723.271.
- Wenninger calls it a small ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron.
- Reference:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 106
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- date made
- 1934 04 09
- associated dates
- 1934 04 09 / 1934 04 09
- 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: 7 cm x 9 cm x 9.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 3/4 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.271
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.271
- 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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