Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Lunes on the Surface of a Sphere
date: label: date made
content: 1915 12 14
label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model is made of four discs folded in half and fitted into holes in a perpendicular smaller disc. Hence Wheeler represents a sphere divided into eight lunes. A mark on the model reads: Dec-14-1915. A tag on it reads: 316. The model is, to use Wheeler’s language, collapsible.
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: Trigonometry
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Spherical Trigonometry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0102.353
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.353
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
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 folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in