Geometric Model by C. D. Wesson, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Great Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1916 06 15
notes: label: Description
content: The great icosahedron is a regular polyhedron formed from twenty intersecting equilateral triangles which combine to produce a figure with twelve points. The surface was first described by the Frenchman Louis Poinsot in 1809 and is now known as a Kepler-Poinsot solid. This is a cut and folded paper version of the surface. A mark on it reads: C.D. Wesson (/) 6/15/16. Another mark reads: H.S. of C. (/) 1916. This model was made while A. Harry Wheeler was teaching mathematics at the High School of Commerce in Worcester.
label: Description
content: The model is presently (February, 2019) in pieces, suggesting how it would have been assembled.
label: Description
content: For an older model of this surface, see MA.304722.28. Compare 1979.0102.092, 1979.0102.259, and 1979.0102.278
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content: References:
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content: H. M. Cundy and A. P. Rollet, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1961.
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974, p. 63-64.
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
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: 1979.0102.278
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.278
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.7 cm x 8.6 cm x 8.6 cm; 4 7/32 in x 3 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in