Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Snub Cube
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 six squares and thirty-two equilateral triangles. It is called a snub cube. The model is made from paper. A. Harry Wheeler assigned this model the number 16, and referred to it as Archimedean solid XI. A mark on the model reads: XI 16. Compare MA.304723.059 (plastic), MA.304723.060 (plastic), and MA.304723.061 (paper).
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 31.
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content: A. H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>.
label: Description
content: 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
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.304723.059
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (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: 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm; 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in