Geometric Model by R. Anderson, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Stellated Octahedron or Stella Octangula
date: label: date made
content: 1938 05 08
name: label: maker
content: Anderson, R.
notes: label: Description
content: This balsa wood model shows two intersecting tetrahedra. This model also may be seen as a stellation of the octahedron and was called by Kepler a stella octangula. A mark reads: R. Anderson (/) May 8, 1938. Another mark reads: 46.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.086, MA.304723.087, MA.304723.132, and 1979.0102.173.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 37. Another paper tag reads: 46 (/) 2T.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.086, MA.304723.087, MA.304723.132, and 1979.0102.173.
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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.304723.087
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6.5 cm x 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm; 2 9/16 in x 3 11/32 in x 3 11/32 in