Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This model is made from red, white, black and blue plastic. The faces on one side are four equilateral trianges. The faces on the other side are two quadrilaterals that meet in an edge and two isosceles triangles. This is part of model 771, what Wheeler describes as a "rhombic dodecahedron transformed inoto a regular pentagonal dodecahedron and an eight-pointed star dodecahedron." Six models like this one may be arranged to form a regular pentagonal dodecahedron. Such pieces are 1979.0102.317, 1979.0102.318, 1979.0102.336, 1979.0102.337, 1979.0102.338, and 1979.0102.339. The eight-pointed dodecahedron is 1979.0102.340.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.337
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.337
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.1 cm x 6.2 cm x 6.2 cm; 2 in x 2 7/16 in x 2 7/16 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_905051
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-c412-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
