Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Collapsible Spherical Polar Triangle
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Collapsible Spherical Polar Triangle
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- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model ishows a spherical triangle inside a circle of the sphere.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Other Terms
- Geometric Model; Spherical Triangle
- 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: 4.5 cm x 11 cm x 8.5 cm; 1 25/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 3 11/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.597
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.597
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Trigonometry
- Spherical Trigonometry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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