Object Details
Maker
Daily, L. Mae
Description
This tan paper model has twelve identical faces that are intersecting pentagrams produced by extending the edges of the faces of a regular dodecahedron. The twelve vertices are also identical. The surface is one of two first described by Johannes Kepler in 1619, and now known as a Kepler-Poinsot solid.
A mark reads: MAE DAILY 26 (/) MAR. 13, 25.
Compare models 1979.0102.015, 1979.0102.166, 1979.0102.227, 1979.0102.258, 1979.0102.260, 1979.0102.310, MA.304723.026, and MA.304723.822.
Lena Mae Daily (1904-1973) was an undergraduate at Brown University's Women's College who took a course from Wheeler in the spring of 1925. She sent him a letter in July of that year showing several models she had made (see 1979.3009.110) Daily would go on to get an M.A. in mathematics at Brown in 1932, and to teach mathematics in the Warwick, Rhode Island, school system from 1926 until her marriage to Allie C. Aldrich in 1942.
For models by Daily, see 1979.0102.260, MA.304723.493, and probably MA.304723.676.
References:
Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 38.
Brown Alumni Monthly, vol. 74, #4, January, 1974, p. 51.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Louise D. Campbell
date made
1925 03 13
ID Number
1979.0102.260
accession number
1979.0102
catalog number
1979.0102.260
Object Name
Geometric Model
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 12 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm; 4 23/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 4 23/32 in
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Women's History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_905127