Object Details
maker
Wheeler, Albert Harry
Description
This dissected hinged paper model of a rhombic dodecahedron is divided into twelve equal pyramids with bases athat are rhombuses (and faces of the dodecahedron). Rearranged, the pyramids become the points of what Wheeler calls a rhombic dodecahedron of the second species. Taken with a second rhombic docahedron of this type, it becomes an entire rhombic dodecahedron of the second species. The second rhombic dodecahedron is 1979.0102.131. Hence the two models together form a transformation of two equal rhombic dodecahedra into a rhombic dodecahedron of the second species.
This is one of Wheeler's earliest dated dissected polyhedra. It has his number 781.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
date made
1930 01 31
ID Number
MA.304723.325
accession number
304723
catalog number
304723.325
Object Name
Geometric Model
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
tan (overall color)
cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 11 cm x 13.5 cm x 13.5 cm; 4 11/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 5 5/16 in
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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Dissected Polyhedra
Science & Mathematics
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1067706