Geometric Model by R. Anderson, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Great Rhombicuboctahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: teacher of maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Anderson, R.
notes: label: Description
content: The Archimedean solids are polyhedra with regular polygons for sides and edges of equal length. For example, this 26-faced model has twelve square sides, eight hexagonal sides, and six octagonal sides. The surface is called a truncated cuboctahedron, a rhombitruncated cuboctahedron, or a great rhombicuboctahedron.
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content: Archimedean solids were known to the Hellenistic Greek mathematician Archimedes and studied by the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. This particular example was made from balsa wood by A. Harry Wheeler’s student R. Anderson, and is dated April 15, ’38. It is number 18 in Wheeler’s listing of models.
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content: For other examples of models of this surface, see MA.304723.063 (plastic) and MA.304723.064 (paper).
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content: References:
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content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 29.
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
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Association of America Objects
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.304723.065
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.065
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, balsa (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm; 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in