Object Details
maker
Wheeler, Albert Harry
Description
The five pieces that form this model are arranged in an open box made from transparent plastic. The pieces are not hinged. They are stored as a hexagon, but may be rearranged to form a square.
A pattern for the model,part of 1979.3002.55, is entitled "Hexagon into a Square". This model is a mirror image of drawing. Two more drawings relating to this model are also part of 1979.3002.55.The dissection is attributed to the Belgian Paul-Jean Busschop.
In Wheeler's list of dissections, under 5HL, he lists a"Regular Hexagon into Square". Although, there is no drawing of this model there (see 1979.3002.43, folder 2). There is a drawing in 1979.3002.43, folder 3. Another sheet on this model is in 1979.3002.53, but the model namer is not given.
Compare MA.304723.818.
References:
E. Fourrey, Curiosités Géométriques, Paris: Vuiber and Nony, 1907, pp 133-134. Doesn't mention Busschop.
Greg N. Frederickson, Dissections Plane and Fancy, pp. 118-120. Frederickson attributes this dissection to Paul-Jean Busschop.
Busschopp, Paul, "Problèmes de géométrie," Nouvelle Corespondence Mathématique, 2 (1876), pp. 83-84.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
date made
1932
ID Number
MA.304723.786
accession number
304723
catalog number
304723.786
Object Name
geometric model
Physical Description
red (overall color)
green (overall color)
plastic (overall material)
wood (overall material)
black (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
turquoise (overall color)
white (overall color)
cut and glued. (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 1.4 cm x 20 cm x 17.5 cm; 9/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1075126