Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cube Transformable into a Stella Octangula and Three Regular Octahedra, Dissected Polyhedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model has a box in the shape of a cube which contains one model of a regular octahedron, two pieces which fit around the octahedron to form a stellated octahedron or stella octangula (to use Kepler's language), and three sets of four triangular pyramids hinged together. The twelve pyramids fit around the points of the octangula to complete the cube. Each set of four may also be arranged to form a regular octahedron congruent to the one inside the stellar octangula. Hence this is a dissection of a cube into a stella octangula and three octahedra. This is Wheeler's model 764.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.284 (small, paper), MA.304723.308 (slightly larger, paper), MA.304723.318 (large size, paper) and MA.304723.305 (large size, plastic).
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: Dissected Polyhedra
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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.304723.308
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.308
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: 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm; 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in