Notes and Drawings for Geometric Models of A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1930-1938
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These notes and drawings record Wheeler's ideas about a variety of geometric models in the time period covered. Several documents relate to a model of an octahedron inscribed in a cube, others a tetrahedron in an icosahedron, in octahedron in an octahedron, and an octahedron in an icosahedron. Others consider ten tetrahedra circumscribed about a regular regular icosahedron, an octahedron in a cube (again), an octahedron in a dodecahedron, and twelve congruent tetrahedra inscribed in a tetrahedron.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1979.3002.045
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.045
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25 cm x 37.5 cm x 2 cm; 9 27/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 25/32 in