Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler, Archimedean Solids
date: label: date made
content: 1946
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. A.H. Wheeler used the term to apply to the thirteen semi-regular solids, the antiprism, and the prism. These drawings relate to the semi-regular solids. Wheeler prepared metal and paper pattern pieces in two sizes, and included them on sheets in the following order:
label: Description
content: 1. Wheeler's Archimedean solids I (the truncated tetrahedron) and II (the truncated cube)
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content: 2. Wheeler's Archimedean solids II (the truncated dodecahedron) and IV (the truncated octahedron).
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content: 3. Wheeler;s Archimedean solid V ( the hexagonal prism)
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content: 4. Wheeler's Archimedean solids VII (the truncated icosahedron), VII (the rhombicuboctahedron), and VIII (the cuboctahedron).
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content: 5. Wheeler's Archimedean solids IX, (the icosidodecahedron), X, (the antiprism), and XI (the smub cube)
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content: 6. Wheeler's Archimedean solids XII (the snub dodecahedron), XIII (Ithe rhombitruncated cuboctahedron), and XIV (the rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron),
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content: 7. Wheeler's archimedean solid XV (the rhombicosidodecahedron).
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content: A typed tag on each sheet reads: ARCHIMEDEAN SOLIDS.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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: 1979.3002.099
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.099
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23 cm x 32 cm x 4 cm; 9 1/16 in x 12 19/32 in x 1 9/16 in