Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This paper model consists of a faceted regular dodecahedron and a twelve pentagonal pyramds. If the points of the pyramid point inward, one has regular dodecahedron. If the points of the pyramids point outward, one has a faceted regular dodecahedron and a hollow stellated dodecahedron.
- This is Wheeler's model 786.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 04 17
- ID Number
- MA.304723.327
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.327
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 11.5 cm x 15 cm x 13.7 cm; 4 17/32 in x 5 29/32 in x 5 13/32 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_1068457
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-0d22-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
