Geometric Model Stand by L. Brill, D41, 9
date: label: date made
content: 1885-1900
name: label: maker
content: Brill, L.
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of a group of hollow wooden stands, painted black, which are designed to hold models like those produced by Ludwig Brill and Martin Schilling. It is an elliptic ring.
label: Description
content: A paper tag on the stand reads: D41,9. A pencil mark on the bottom reads: X 2. XXXIII. Model XXXIII in Brill’s Series 10.2, is an ellipsoid with the ratio of the length of the axes 1:2:3. It has Brill’s overall number 3. In Schilling’s catalog, the same model has overall number 4 and is Series 10, Nr. 13. For the model for which this is a stand, see 1990.0571.01.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: L. Brill, </>Catalog</I>, 1892, p. 22, 57, 91.
label: Description
content: M. Schilling, <I>Catalog</I>, 1911, p. 22, 111, 168.
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 Brown University Department of Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304722.23.03
label: catalog number
content: 304722.23.03
label: accession number
content: 304722
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model Stand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 13.3 cm x 12.2 cm; 25/32 in x 5 1/4 in x 4 13/16 in