Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 136. Ser. 8 No. 20, Surface of Rotation of Constant Negative Curvature (Kuen's Surface)
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This plaster model is was originally constructed under the supervision of Alexander Brill by J. Mack, a student at the technical high school in Munich, along ideas of L. Bianchi, A. Enneper and Th. Kuen. It was first published in 1882. This example of the model is presently in two pieces.
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content: A paper tag on the model reads: 136. Another paper tag reads: Fläche const. negat. Krűmung. (/) verl. V. L. Brill 8 Ser. Nr. XX.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the German Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition, a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893. It there was purchased by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and subsequently was donated to the Smithsonian.
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content: The surface has attracted the attention of artists as well as mathematicians.
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content: References:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p. 17, 82.
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content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: G. Fischer,<I> Mathematical Models</I>, I, p. 82 (photograph 86), vol. 2, p. 38.
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: 1985.0112.095
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.095
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: 25.5 cm x 16 cm x 18 cm; 10 1/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 7 3/32 in