Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This model has a box in the shape of a cube which contains 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. The 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 a cube into a stella octangula and three octahedra. This is Wheeler's model 764.
- Compare MA.304723.284 (small, paper), MA.304723.308 (slightly larger, paper), MA.304723.318 (large size, paper) and MA.304723.305 (large size, plastic).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.308
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.308
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm; 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 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_1067606
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-2004-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
