Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This folded paper model is a dissected cube. It contains within it an eight-pointed star and six five-sided polyhedra. The five-sided polyhedra are hinged and may be rearranged to form a regular dodecahedron less a cube in the center, a pentagonal dodecahedron and an eight-pointed star. The model fits snugly in a paper box, folded in the shape of a cube. Another cube that would fit into the center is MA.304723.298. Hence, combining MA.304723.312 and MA.304723.298, one has two cubes that may be rearranged to form a regular dodecahedron, a pentagonal dodecahedron, and an eight-pointed star.
- This is Wheeler's model 766. Compare MA.304723.298 and MA.304723.312.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 04 02
- ID Number
- MA.304723.312
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.312
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 8 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm; 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 5/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1067648
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-30b1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
