Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Icosidodecahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes enumerated the eighteen regular and semi-regular solids, and they are known as Archimedean solids in his honor.
label: Description
content: The faces of this cut and folded paper model are twelve regular pentagons, painted red, and twenty equilateral triangles, painted green. It is an Archimedean solid, number IX among Wheeler's Archimedean solids and number 14 in his general list of models.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.058, MA.304723.436, MA.304723.448, and MA.304723.465.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.448
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.448
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.8 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 3 1/16 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in