Geometric Models, L. Brill Ser. 19, Models Relating to the Regular Partition of Three-Dimensional Space
Geometric Models, L. Brill Ser. 19, Models Relating to the Regular Partition of Three-Dimensional Space
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- Description
- Each of these four identical white plaster models has the dimensions given. Each has six triangles and two parallelograms for faces. One triangular face of each model has a mark in red: +. The four models can be arranged into a hexahedron which has two parallelograms and six isosceles triangles for faces (When the models are assembled pairs of triangular faces with “+” signs on them touch one another), The resulting figure is not similar to one of the components.
- This is part of a series of models designed by A. Schoenflies in Göttingen to illustrate the regular partition of space. The series was first published by Brill in 1891. This model has #326 in the Göttingen collection of mathematical models.
- 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, pp. 46-47, 90-91.
- A Schoenflies, “Uber Reguläre Gebietstheilungen des Raumes,” Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, #9, June 27, 1888, pp. 223-237.
- Göttingen Collection of Mathematical Models, presently online at http://modellsammlung.uni-goettingen.de/, accessed September 6, 2019.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- geometric model
- geometric models
- date made
- 1892
- maker
- L. Brill
- place made
- Germany: Hesse, Darmstadt
- Physical Description
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 5 cm x 4.5 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 31/32 in x 1 25/32 in
- ID Number
- 1985.0112.173
- catalog number
- 1985.0112.173
- accession number
- 1985.0112
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wesleyan University
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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