Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 147. Ser. 8 No. 21, Minimal Surface (Enneper's Surface)
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model of a minimal surface has a rectangular base and a curved surface with a hole in the middle. A black metal support protrudes on the right but supports nothing (the top section of the model is missing). A net of lines is indicated on the surface. A paper tag reads: 147. Another paper tag reads: Minimalfläche 9. Ordn [. . .] (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 8. Ser. N [. . .].
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content: This surface was discussed by Enneper in a publications of 1864 and 1871. It is one of a series of models desgned at the technical high school in Munich and fist published by Brill in 1882. The designer was G. Herting.
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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: References:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p.17, 84.
label: Description
content: G. Fischer, <I>Mathematical Models: Commentary</I>, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1986, pp. 45 (also the accompanying volume of photographs, p. 88).
label: Description
content: Accession file.
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: 1985.0112.105
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.105
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 cm x 34 cm x 28 cm; 9 27/32 in x 13 3/8 in x 11 1/32 in