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Description: | [FER]DINAND ENGEL (printed on the remnants of a paper label). lines of truncation MANU Ferdinand Engel. circa 1850 Broadway, New York, The United States of America. This is a mathematical model, made of plaster of Paris, which represents the solid surface of a paraboloid of revolution, showing its critical point. It is obtained by rotating a parabola about its axis through one hundred and eighty degrees. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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