Geometric Model by Robert Evans, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Stella Octangula in Cube
date: label: date made
content: 1928 03 26
name: label: unspecified
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Evans, Robert
notes: label: Description
content: In this tan cut and folded paper model, the eight points of a stella octangula (e.g. a compound of two tetrahedra, known also as a stellated octahedron) coincide with the eight vertices of a surrounding skeletal cube.A tag on the model reads: 99. A mark reads: Robert B. Evans Mar 26, 1928
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.086, MA.304723.087, 1979.0102.173, and MA.304723.132 (the first three models lack the cube).
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 37.
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.304723.132
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.132
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: 9 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in