Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Regular Star Icosahedron or Eighth Stellation of the Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1923 12 25
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: A stellation of a regular polyhedron is a polyhedron with faces formed by extending the sides of the faces of the regular polyhedron. One may understand this tan paper model as showing parts of twenty three-pointed stars, erected on the twenty triangular faces of a regular icosahedron. The stars meet in a total of twelve points. Only six of the nine triangular faces of each star appear, making for a model with 120 triangular faces.
label: Description
content: A mark on the model reads: 367 (/) Ic. A second mark reads: Regular Star Icosohedron (/) 7th Species. A third mark reads: A. Harry Wheeler (/) Dec-25-1923.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.192, MA.304723.206, MA.304723.207, 1979.0102.093 and 1979.0102.306.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 54.
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.304723.192
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.192
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: 14.3 cm x 19 cm x 16 cm; 5 5/8 in x 7 15/32 in x 6 5/16 in