Model of the Geometric Sum of Spherical Steps by Richard P. Baker, Baker #438
date: label: date made
content: ca 1906-1935
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Richard P.
notes: label: Description
content: This geometric model was constructed by Richard P. Baker in the early twentieth century when he was Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa. Baker believed that models were essential for the teaching of many parts of mathematics and physics, and over 100 of his models are in the museum collections.
label: Description
content: This painted wire structure has a tag that reads: No. 438 (/) Geometric sum spherical (/) steps.
label: Description
content: Baker built nine models to correspond to figures described by the German mathematician Eduard Study in his book on the geometry of dynamics (shortened by Baker to Dynamen). Examples with numbers MA.211257.089 (this one) and MA.211257.090 relate to finding the sum of spherical wedges.
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content: References:
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content: Study, E., <I>Geometrie Der Dynamen: Die Zusammensetzung Von Kräften Und Verwandte Gegenstände Der Geometrie Bearb.</I>, Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1903, esp. pp. 34-35.
label: Description
content: Baker,R.P., <I>Mathematical Models</I>,, Iowa City, 1931, p. 16.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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 Frances E. Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.211257.089
label: accession number
content: 211257
label: catalog number
content: 211257.089
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: beige (overall color)
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content: soldered (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6.6 cm x 19.8 cm x 18.3 cm; 2 19/32 in x 7 25/32 in x 7 7/32 in