Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Compound of Icosahedron and Dodecahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Compound of Icosahedron and Dodecahedron
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- Description
- This brown brown paper model represents the union of a regular icosahedron and a regular dodecahedron. It may beconsidered as having twelve low pentagonal pyramids and twenty small triangular prisms covering an interior icosidodecahedron.. A tag reads: 402. Another mark reads: No. 402.
- Wenninger calls this the first stellation of the icosidodecahedron.
- Reference:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 76.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 3 5/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.097
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.097
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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