Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- Extending the sides of polygons can produce a variety of complex polyhedra, including this one. It has twelve relatively sharp points, each with five triangular edges converging. These points alone would form a twelve-pointed star that is itself a stellation of the icosahedron. In addition, there are twenty three-sided points—not as sharp. These faces alone are like those of a great stellated dodecahedron. Wenninger refers to this model as the thirteenth stellation of the icosidodecahedron.
- The model is cut and folded from paper. Wheeler assigned it the number 371, and classified it as icosahedron I10. He also pointed out that the inner faces could be considered as parts of five intersecting tetrahedra.
- A related model (304723.204) is dated 1919, hence the approximate date assigned to this model.
- References:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 55, 73, 88.
- 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
- ca 1920
- ID Number
- MA.304723.205
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.205
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 14.8 cm x 19 cm x 19 cm; 5 13/16 in x 7 15/32 in x 7 15/32 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_1066721
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-31c5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
