Geometric Model, L. Brill Ser. 19, Model 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: This white plaster model has three pentagons on top, three pentagons and three rectangles on the sides, and a regular hexagon on the bottom. Numerous line segments are indicated. It has no maker’s marks. It is one of a series of models designed by A. Schoenflies in Göttingen to illustrate the regular partition of space. Schoenflies designed “stones” which could be arranged into larger blocks (sometimes with congruent stones, sometimes using stones that were mirror images of one another and sometimes, as in this case, apparently being quite distinct). The series was first published by Brill in 1891. The plaster stone that comprises the object with museum number 1985.0112.178 could be arranged to be part of the block with museum number 1985.0112.163. A model of this block and stones at the University of Göttingen (#328 in their collection) appears to have three differently shaped blocks made from this kind of stone. Only one of these blocks is in the Smithsonian collections.
label: Description
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:
label: Description
content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, pp. 46-47, 90-91.
label: Description
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 6, 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: 1985.0112.178
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.178
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: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 31/32 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in