Object Details
- 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Maker
- Daily, L. Mae
- date made
- 1925 03 13
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- 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
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
