Object Details
maker
Wheeler, Albert Harry
Description
This star-shaped black plastic model has twelve faces and eight points. Each face is a pentagon with one vertex that points inward.
Compare 1979.0102.340, MA.304723.006, MA.304723.167, and MA.304723.656.
This is part of model 771, what Wheeler describes as a "rhombic dodecahedron transformed inoto a regular pentagonal dodecahedron and an eight-pointed star dodecahedron." Six irregular octahedra may be arranged to form a regular pentagonal dodecahedron. Such pieces are 1979.0102.317, 1979.0102.318, 1979.0102.336, 1979.0102.337, 1979.0102.338, and 1979.0102.339. The eight-pointed dodecahedron is 1979.0102.340, this model.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Louise D. Campbell
ID Number
1979.0102.340
accession number
1979.0102
catalog number
1979.0102.340
Object Name
Geometric Model
Physical Description
plastic (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 6 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm; 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 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_905054