Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 64 or 65. Ser. 10,2 No. 28, Cyclide
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of four models of cyclides designed by Sebastian Finsterwalder (1862-1951), a German applied mathematician who would be on the faculty at the Munich technical university (initially the Munich technical high school) for many years. The plaster model shows a one-holed surface with the hole off-center. The outer rim of the surface is indented near the hole. Various circular arcs indicate lines of curvature. A paper tag on the model reads: 65. This has been crossed out and another number penciled over: 64. Another paper tag reads: Cyclide mit 1 Syst. sphär. Krümmgslin. (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 10. Ser. 2 Nchtr. Nr. XXVIII.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893, where it was purchased by Wesleyan University.
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content: References:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p. 21, 66.
label: Description
content: Ulf Hashagen, “ Die Mathematik und ihre Assistenten an der TH Munchen (1868-1918), <I>Mathematics and Theoretical Physics</I>, <I>Symposia Gaussiana</I>, ed. M. Behara, R. Fritsch, and R.G. Lintz, 1995, pp. 140-144.
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: 1985.0112.049
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.049
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pencil (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 8 cm x 9 cm; 2 9/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 17/32 in