Geometric Model of A. Harry Wheeler, Great Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1930 01 14
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This polyhedron has twelve identical intersecting pentagonal planes. 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.
label: Description
content: This paper model shows the great dodecahedron as the union of a two polyhedral, one black and one tan. A mark reads: Jan-14-1930.
label: Description
content: Compare models MA.304722.027, MA.304722.174, MA.304722.499, MA.304722.653, and 1979.0102.230.
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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: The University Press, 1971, p. 39.
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.304723.499
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.499
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
label: Other Terms
content: Geometric Model; Great Dodecahedron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 9.7 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 13/16 in x 2 3/4 in