Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This dissected hinged paper model of a rhombic dodecahedron is divided into twelve equal pyramids with bases athat are rhombuses (and faces of the dodecahedron). Rearranged, the pyramids become the points of what Wheeler calls a rhombic dodecahedron of the second species. Taken with a second rhombic docahedron of this type, it becomes an entire rhombic dodecahedron of the second species. The second rhombic dodecahedron is 1979.0102.131. Hence the two models together form a transformation of two equal rhombic dodecahedra into a rhombic dodecahedron of the second species.
- This is one of Wheeler's earliest dated dissected polyhedra. It has his number 781.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 01 31
- ID Number
- MA.304723.325
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.325
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 11 cm x 13.5 cm x 13.5 cm; 4 11/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 5 5/16 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1067706
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-1944-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
