Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Snub Dodecahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The Archimedean solids are polyhedra with regular polygons for sides and edges of equal length. For example, the faces of this surface are twelve regular pentagons and eighty equilateral triangles. It is called a snub dodecahedron. The model is cut and folded from paper. A mark on the model reads: XII. Wheeler assigned the model the number 17, and referred to it as Archimedean solid XII.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.062 and 1979.0102.289.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 32.
label: Description
content: A. H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
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: 1979.0102.289
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.289
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm; 3 11/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in