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 three identical white plaster models has the dimensions given. These U-shaped solids have six quadrilaterals, two triangles and an octagon for faces. They are part 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 and sometimes using stones that were mirror images of one another). The series was first published by Brill in 1891. The congruent plaster stones that comprise the object with museum number 1985.0112.177 could be arranged to form a block with museum number 1985.0112.166. These objects have no maker’s marks.
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content: A model of this block and stones at the University of Göttingen (#329 in their collection) has two stones and a block. The Smithsonian collections include these three such stones and a block.
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.
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: 1985.0112.177
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.177
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric models
label: Object Name
content: geometric models
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 8 cm x 4 cm; 25/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 1 9/16 in