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 two trapezoidal faces, one turquoise and one gold, joined along the top edge. It also has two black triangular faces. This is part of model 771, what Wheeler describes as a "rhombic dodecahedron transformed into 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
- 1979.0102.339
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.339
- 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_905053
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-c413-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
