Object Details
- Description
- This cut and folded paper model is one of several in which A. Harry Wheeler illustrated properties of polar spherical triangles. One polar triangle is inside the other. The vertices are unlabeled. The model is undated and has no Wheeler number.
- A loose piece stored with the model has the label: QUADRANTAL ARC
- For a discussion of polar triangles, see MA.304723.159.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 5 cm x 8.2 cm x 5 cm; 1 31/32 in x 3 7/32 in x 1 31/32 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
