Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The Archimedean solids are polyhedra with regular polygons for sides and edges of equal length. For example, the faces of this surface are six squares and thirty-two equilateral triangles. It is called a snub cube. The model is made from plastic. A. Harry Wheeler assigned this model the number 16, and referred to it as Archimedean solid XI. The model is undated and has no signature.
- Compare MA.304723.059 (plastic), MA.304723.060 (plastic), and MA.304723.061 (paper).
- References:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 31.
- A. H. Wheeler, Catalog of Models, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1915-1945
- ID Number
- MA.304723.060
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.060
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- gray (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm; 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Mathematical Association of America Objects
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1065381
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-10cd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
