Geometric Model by Mae Daily, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Small Stellated Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1925 03 13
name: label: Maker
content: Daily, L. Mae
notes: label: Description
content: This tan paper model has twelve identical faces that are intersecting pentagrams produced by extending the edges of the faces of a regular dodecahedron. The twelve vertices are also identical. The surface is one of two first described by Johannes Kepler in 1619, and now known as a Kepler-Poinsot solid.
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content: A mark reads: MAE DAILY 26 (/) MAR. 13, 25.
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content: Compare models 1979.0102.015, 1979.0102.166, 1979.0102.227, 1979.0102.258, 1979.0102.260, 1979.0102.310, MA.304723.026, and MA.304723.822.
label: Description
content: Lena Mae Daily (1904-1973) was an undergraduate at Brown University's Women's College who took a course from Wheeler in the spring of 1925. She sent him a letter in July of that year showing several models she had made (see 1979.3009.110) Daily would go on to get an M.A. in mathematics at Brown in 1932, and to teach mathematics in the Warwick, Rhode Island, school system from 1926 until her marriage to Allie C. Aldrich in 1942.
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content: For models by Daily, see 1979.0102.260, MA.304723.493, and probably MA.304723.676.
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content: References:
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content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 38.
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content: <i>Brown Alumni Monthly</I>, vol. 74, #4, January, 1974, p. 51.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Teaching Math
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: 1979.0102.260
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.260
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm; 4 23/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 4 23/32 in