Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- Cutting off the vertices of a regular polyhedron creates another polyhedron which may also have faces that are regular polygons. If one cuts off the vertices of a regular octahedron, one can produce this truncated octahedron, which has six faces that are squares and eight that are regular hexagons. The solid angles of the figure are equal, and it is called a semi-regular solid. The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes enumerated the eighteen regular and semi-regular solids, and they are known as Archimedean solids in his honor.
- This tan paper model of a truncated octahedron has a tag that reads: 9. It also is marked: Archimedean Solid IV (/) 14 Faces (/) 6(4) + 8(6). Wheeler assigned it the general number 9 and it was number IV of his Archimedean solids.
- Reference:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 21.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.454
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.454
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 9 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm; 3 9/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1069443
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-144f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
