Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 54. Ser. 7 No. 24a, Third Order Surface (Hesse's Surface)
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model of a third order surface (Hesse's surface) has a square base on which three cake-slice shaped pieces are around a central four-sided pyramid. Three other pieces are mounted on metal rods between the cake-slice shaped pieces. These surround a smaller six-sided figure. A paper tag reads: 54. Another, incomplete, tag reads: Hesse'sche [. . .] [/] Verl. v. L. Brill [. . .].
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content: The model is one in a series designed by Carl Rodenberg of the technical high school in Darmstadt that was first published in 1880.
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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, p. p. 15, 64
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content: The website of the Mathematics Institute at Oxford University at address:www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-art/cubic-surfaces/hessian-surfaces.
label: Description
content: Groeningen University website, accessed September 3, 2019.
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: 1985.0112.042
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.042
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 21.5 cm x 21 cm; 9 7/16 in x 8 15/32 in x 8 9/32 in