Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 79. Ser. 8 No. 22, Surface of Twelfth Order
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. The series was first published in 1882.
label: Description
content: The plaster model has a rectangular plaster base with a curved top. A metal rod on the right should hold a second plaster piece which is a mirror image of the first. This piece is missing in this object.
label: Description
content: A paper tag reads: 79. Another paper tag reads: Fläche 12. Ordnung. [/] Verl. v. L. Brill. 8. Ser. Nr. XXII.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, p. 17, 70.
label: Description
content: Website of the Göttingen collection of mathematical models, 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: 1985.0112.057
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.057
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: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 19.3 cm x 12 cm; 5 1/2 in x 7 19/32 in x 4 23/32 in