Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Sixty-Face, Twenty-Pointed Polyhedron
Object Details
- Description
- This cut and folded paper model has twenty-points sbd sixty faces, five around each point. Wheeler reported that the edges were "grouped by five in twelve planes." He classified it among his miscellaneous models
- A mark on the model reads: 748 Q10. Another mark reads: April 19 - (/) 1919.
- Compare to the final stellation of the icosahedron.
- Reference:
- A. H. Wheeler, "List of Models," Mathematics Collections, Non-accession number 1979.3002.83, NMAH.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1919 04 19
- ID Number
- MA.304723.282
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.282
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 18 cm x 22 cm x 22 cm; 7 3/32 in x 8 21/32 in x 8 21/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1068524
