Geometric Models, L. Brill No. 221. Ser. 19 No. 11, Models Relating to the Regular Partition of Three-Dimensional Space
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: The dimensions given are for each of these two white plaster models. Both of these models are ten-sided polyhedra. The models both have a parallelogram as the top face, four quadrilaterals and four triangles on the sides, and an octagon on the bottom. A sticker on one model reads: 221. A sticker on the reverse side reads: Mod. zur Darstellg. von reguären (/) Gebietstheilungen des Raumes. (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 19. Ser. Nr. XI.
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content: This is part of a series of models designed by A. Schoenflies in Göttingen to illustrate the regular partition of space. Schoenflies designed "stones" like these which could be arranged into larger blocks (sometimes with congruent stones and sometimes using stones that were mirror images of one another). The series was first published by Brill in 1891. According to Brill’s catalog, this particular model was designed to show how several forms could be derived from a basic form. A model in the collection of mathematical models at Göttingen University that includes these two pieces (#334 in their collection) also includes three models of the form of 1985.0112.175.
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content: This example of the model was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893.
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content: References:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, pp. 46-47, 90-91.
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content: A Schoenflies, “Uber Reguläre Gebietstheilungen des Raumes,” <I>Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften</I>, #9, June 27, 1888, pp. 223-237.
label: Description
content: Göttingen Collection of Mathematical Models, presently online at http://modellsammlung.uni-goettingen.de/, accessed September 10, 2019.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Darmstadt
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content: Medicine and 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: 1985.0112.170
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content: 1985.0112.170
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric models
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 6 cm x 3.2 cm; 19/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in