Geometric Model Stand by L. Brill or M. Schilling for a Model of an Optical Surface
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1914
name: label: possible maker
content: Brill, L.
label: possible maker
content: Schilling, Martin
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of a group of hollow wooden stands, painted black, which are designed to hold models like those produced by Ludwig Brill and Martin Schilling. It is a circular ring.
label: Description
content: A pencil mark on the bottom reads: VI.3. Ludwig Brill’s model No. 158, Ser. 6 No. 3 is a plaster model for a wave surface for negative double refraction in a uniaxial crystal. An example of this model has museum number 1982.0795.23. The example lacks a stand. A tag on that model reads: D41,8. It was made by L. Brill. This same model had number 356, Ser. 6, No.3 in Schilling’s catalog.
label: Description
content: Compare stand MA.394722.23.09, which has the same shape but no tags and a different mark.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: L. Brill, </>Catalog</I>, 1892, p. 13, 87, 91.
label: Description
content: M. Schilling, <I>Catalog</I>, 1911, p. 13, 167, 172.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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 Brown University Department of Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304722.23.09
label: catalog number
content: 304722.23.09
label: accession number
content: 304722
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model Stand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.8 cm x 10 cm x 8.3 cm; 23/32 in x 3 15/16 in x 3 9/32 in