Geometric Models, L. Brill Ser. 19, Models 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: Each of these four identical white plaster models has the dimensions given. Each has six triangles and two parallelograms for faces. One triangular face of each model has a mark in red: +. The four models can be arranged into a hexahedron which has two parallelograms and six isosceles triangles for faces (When the models are assembled pairs of triangular faces with “+” signs on them touch one another), The resulting figure is not similar to one of the components.
label: Description
content: This is part of a series of models designed by A. Schoenflies in Göttingen to illustrate the regular partition of space. The series was first published by Brill in 1891. This model has #326 in the Göttingen collection of mathematical models.
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:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, pp. 46-47, 90-91.
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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: 1985.0112.173
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.173
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric models
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 5 cm x 4.5 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 31/32 in x 1 25/32 in