Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Hexecontahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1926 08 31
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model has faces that are irregular pentagons, arranged in twelve groups of five to form a ball-shaped figure with sixty faces.
label: Description
content: A mark in pencil reads: Aug 31-'26 (/) 475 (/) Dual no. 17.
label: Description
content: The pentagonal hexecontahedron is the dual of the snub dodecahedron. Wheeler;'s model of the snub dodecahedron has his number 17 (see for example MA.304723.062).
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.304723.269
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.269
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: 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 3 15/16 in