Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 238. Ser. 17 No. 4, Catalan Minimal Surface
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model of a Catalan minimal surface has a flat black wooden stand. The model is hinged and opens to reveal two surfaces, both scribed with a grid of curves. It shows an Enneper surface, that is to say, a minimal surface (a surface of zero mean curvature) that intersects itself. A tag on the stand reads: 238. A tag on the model reads: Catalan'sche Minimalfläche (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 17. Ser. Nr. 4.
label: Description
content: It was designed in Helsinki by J. Laine under the direction of Prof. E. R. Neovius and first published by Brill in 1886. 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, Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . ., Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, pp. 41, 84.
label: Description
content: Groningen collection of mathematical models, visible at http://www.math.rug.nl/models/, accessed September 16, 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: 1985.0112.187
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 22 cm x 21 cm; 7 3/32 in x 8 21/32 in x 8 9/32 in