Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Lunes on the Surface of a Sphere
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Lunes on the Surface of a Sphere
- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model is made of four discs folded in half and fitted into holes in a perpendicular smaller disc. Hence Wheeler represents a sphere divided into eight lunes. A mark on the model reads: Dec-14-1915. A tag on it reads: 316. The model is, to use Wheeler’s language, collapsible.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- date made
- 1915 12 14
- 1915
- associated dates
- 1915 12 14 / 1915 12 14
- 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: 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.353
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.353
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- 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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