Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Small Stellated Dodecahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This small brown paper model has twelve identical faces that are intersecting pentagrams produced by extending the edges of the faces of a regular dodecahedron. The twelve vertices are also identical. The surface is one of two first described by Johannes Kepler in 1619, and now known as a Kepler-Poinsot solid.
label: Description
content: Compare models 1979.0102.015, 1979.0102.166, 1979.0102.227, 1979.0102.258, 1979.0102.260, 1979.0102.310, MA.304723.026, and MA.304723.822.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 38.
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.304723.822
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.822
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued and varnished. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2.2 cm x 2.2 cm x 2.2 cm; 7/8 in x 7/8 in x 7/8 in