Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 147. Ser. 8 No. 21, Minimal Surface (Enneper's Surface)
Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 147. Ser. 8 No. 21, Minimal Surface (Enneper's Surface)
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- Description
- 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 [...].
- 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.
- This example of the model was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893.
- References:
- L. Brill, Catalog mathematischer Modelle..., Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p.17, 84.
- G. Fischer, Mathematical Models: Commentary, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1986, pp. 45 (also the accompanying volume of photographs, p. 88).
- Accession file.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- geometric model
- geometric model
- date made
- 1892
- maker
- L. Brill
- place made
- Germany: Hesse, Darmstadt
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25 cm x 34 cm x 28 cm; 9 27/32 in x 13 3/8 in x 11 1/32 in
- ID Number
- 1985.0112.105
- catalog number
- 1985.0112.105
- accession number
- 1985.0112
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wesleyan University
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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