Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 80. Ser. 5 No. 12, Representation of an Elliptic Function
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This large white plaster model has four undulations on both sides of a higher central plateau. Various lines are indicated and numbered.
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content: The model was designed in 1880 by Th. Kuen and Chr. Wolff, working under the supervision of Ludwig Brill at the technical high school in Munich. It shows the surface made by points related to one another via an elliptic integral of the first kind. It represents a graph of the Jacobi amplitude. A sticker on the front reads: 80.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the German Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition, a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893. It there was purchased by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and subsequently was donated to the Smithsonian.
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content: References:
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content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: Ludwig Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, p. 11, 70.
label: Description
content: G. Fischer, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, I, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1986, p. 129. Schilling gave this model a different number and series.
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: 1985.0112.058
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.058
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 35 cm x 29.5 cm; 7 15/32 in x 13 25/32 in x 11 5/8 in