Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- A stellation of a regular polyhedron is a polyhedron with faces formed by extending the sides of the faces of the regular polyhedron. Extending the triangular sides of an icosahedron can produce a variety of complex polyhedra, including this one. The surface has sixty short three-sided spikes. These meet in groups of three—each meeting point might be considered as the vertex of a circumscribing regular dodecahedron.
- The model is cut and folded from paper. It is Wheeler’s model 382, and number I21 in his series of icosahedra. Wenninger calls the surface the fifteenth stellation of the icosahedron.
- References:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 62.
- 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
- 1927-05-12
- ID Number
- MA.304723.197
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.197
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 9 cm x 11.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 3 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 4 29/32 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_1066715
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-197b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
