Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This model includes 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 the volume of a cube into a stella octangula and three octahedra.
- A mark on the object reads: 764.
- Compare MA.304723.284 (small, paper), MA.304723.308 (slightly larger, paper), MA.304723.318 (large size, paper) and MA.304723.305.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.305
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.305
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and taped (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 9 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1067593
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-1f39-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
