Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 72. Ser. 9 No. 3, Fourth Order Surface of Steiner
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of a series of models designed at the technical high school in Munich under the direction of Alexander Brill, copied from a model of E. Kummer. The series was first published in 1882.
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content: The surface, discovered by J. Steiner in Rome, 1844, is called the Steiner surface or the Roman surface. It is one representation of the real projective plane.
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content: The plaster model has tetrahedral symmetry. This version presently is in two parts. A paper tag reads: Fläche 4 Ord. von Steiner [/] Verl. v. L. Brill. 9. Ser. Nr. 3.
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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: Brill, L. <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p.17, 83-84.
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content: Fischer, Gerd, ed., <I>Mathematical Models</I>, vol. 1, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1986, pp. 42-44.
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content: Fischer, Gerd, ed., <I>Mathematical Models</I>, vol. 2, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1986, pp. `17-19.
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content: Groeningen University website, accessed September 2, 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: 1985.0112.054
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.054
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: 6.3 cm x 11 cm x 10.1 cm; 2 15/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 3 31/32 in