Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Polar Spherical Triangles
National Museum of American History

Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Polar Spherical Triangles

Wheeler, Albert Harry · 1920 04 06

paper (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This cut and folded tan paper model is one of several in which A. Harry Wheeler illustrated properties of polar spherical triangles. A sticker on it reads: PTb<sup>*</sup>. One polar triangle is inside the other. The vertices of the outer triangle are labeled A, B, and C. The vertices of the inner triangle are labeled A<sub>2</sub>, B<sub>2</sub>, and C<sub>2</sub>. The model has no Wheeler number. It also is marked: See STRIA(1)<sup>2</sup>

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