List of Physical Visualizations
and Related Artifacts

1900 – Crum Brown’s Mathematical Surface

Model by Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922) of a half-twist mathematical surface, featuring a non-Euclidean so-called Klein bottle, c. 1900.

Sources:

  1. Photo from the Science Museum, London, textual description courtesy of Klaus Hentschel.
  2. For more, see Klaus Hentschel (2014): Visual Cultures in Science, Technology and Medicine, pp. 96ff. and pl. XIV.

 


Added by Pierre Dragicevic on January 17, 2016, sent by Klaus Hentschel. Category: Physical model Tags: ,

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