Geometric Model, L. Brill Ser. 19 , Space-Filling Surface
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model has numerous flat faces. It is one 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, as in this case). The series was first published by Brill in 1891. Plaster stones that comprise the object with museum number 1985.0112.175 could be arranged to be part of the block with museum number 1985.0112.160. A somewhat similar model of a block and stones at the University of Göttingen (#331 in their collection) has two differently shaped blocks and three stones. The Smithsonian collections contain one block and three stones with these shapes.
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, 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
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: 1985.0112.160
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.160
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: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 12.6 cm x 9 cm; 3 17/32 in x 4 31/32 in x 3 17/32 in