Geometric Models, L. Brill No. 96. Ser. 3 No. 4, Two Ellipsoids with One Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, students studying technical subjects often learned about the representation of surfaces by equations in courses in solid analytic geometry. Schools in Europe, the United States, and Japan sometimes purchased models to illustrate such surfaces. These objects are part of series of models of quadric surfaces (surfaces of degree two) designed in 1878 by Rudolf Diesel, then a student at the technical high school in Munich. They were published by the firm of Ludwig Brill in Darmstadt. These examples were exhibited at the German Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, and then purchased by Wesleyan University.
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content: The ellipsoid shown can be represented by the equation: x<sup>2</sup>/a<sup>2</sup> + y<sup>2</sup>/ b<sup>2</sup> + z<sup>2</sup>/c<sup>2</sup> = 1. Sections parallel to any of the axes are ellipses. A grid of perpendicular lines of curvature is shown on the models. A paper tag on one models reads: 96. Paper tags on both of them read: Ellipsoid. (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 3. Ser. Nr. 4. The models fit on an elliptical wooden stand painted black (only one stand survives). A mark in pencil on the bottom of the stand reads: III.IV.
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content: These two models are larger than the ellipsoid with catalog number 1985.0112.068, but the same lines of curvature are shown.
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content: References:
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content: Ludwig Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, p. 7, 75-76, 91.
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content: Henry Burchard Fine and Henry Dallas Thompson, <I>Coordinate Geometry</I>, New York: Macmillan Company, 1931, pp. 237-239.
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content: Gerard Fischer, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1986, vol. I, p. 60, vol. II, pp.25-28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Darmstadt
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wesleyan University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0112.069
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.069
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
label: Object Name
content: geometric models
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: each: 10.8 cm x 18 cm x 15 cm; 4 1/4 in x 7 3/32 in x 5 29/32 in