Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cube Transformable into a Stella Octangula and Three Regular Octahedra, Dissected Polyhedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cube Transformable into a Stella Octangula and Three Regular Octahedra, Dissected Polyhedron
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- Description
- This model has a box in the shape of a cube which contains one model of a regular octahedron, two pieces which fit around the octahedron to form a stellated octahedron or stella octangula (to use Kepler's language), and three sets of four triangular pyramids hinged together. These twelve pyramids fit around the points of the octangula to complete the cube. Each set of four may also be arranged to form a regular octahedron congruent to the one inside the stellar octangula. Hence this is a dissection of a cube into a stella octangula and three octahedra.
- A mark on the object reads: Cube with (/) 4 Octahedra (2) Stella Octangula. Another mark reads: 764.
- Compare MA.304723.284 (small, paper), MA.304723.308 (slightly larger, paper), MA.304723.318 (large size, paper) and MA.304723.305. (large size, plastic).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- 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: 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.318
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.318
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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