Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This plastic model has two green and two white triangular faces on one side. On the other side, it has 2 trapezoidal faces, one yellow and one black, joined along the top edge. It also has 2 triangular faces, one turquoise and one blue. 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
- 1979.0102.338
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.338
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.2 cm x 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 2 7/16 in x 1 25/32 in x 1 25/32 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_905052
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-5e41-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
