Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 210. Ser. 15 No. 6.1, Projection of a Polytope (One Hundred Twenty Cell)
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This tan paper model of polyhedra for 120-cell consists of about 113 pentagonal faces. Each face measures 2 cm. w. x 2 cm. deep - the model is not assembled, incomplete, and in fragments. A mark reads: 15. Ser. (/) 6, 1.
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content: This model, is one of a series of models of projections of four-dimensional surfaces into three space that was designed by Victor Schlagel in Hagen and first published by Brill in 1886. It is supposed to have 119 dodecahedra lying with in a dodecahedron. The complete model would have 720 faces, 1200 edges, and 600 vertices. Brill offered the model for 120 marks. By 1911, Schilling sold itl for 200 marks.
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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: Compare 1985.0112.154 and 1985.0112.159.
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content: References:
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content: L.. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p, 31, 89.
label: Description
content: M. Schilling, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>,: M. Schilling, Leipzig, 1911, p. 31-32, 284-295.
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: 1985.0112.159
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content: 1985.0112.159
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)