Accession No

4567

Brief Description

15 wooden geometrical shapes, French (?), 1/4 19th C.

Origin

Paris; France

Maker

L’Hachette & Compagnie

Class

mathematics; demonstration

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1825

Inscription Date

Material

wood

Dimensions

box length 193; breadth 155; height 103mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Trevor Philip and Sons on 18/10/1996.

Inscription

‘L’HACHETTE & CIE
PARIS’ (stamped onto octahedron)

Description Notes

15 geometrical solids including an octahedron, cube, segment, cone, truncated pentagonal pyramid, pentagonal pyramid, leaning pentagonal pyramid, cylinder, hexagonal prism, dodecahedron, truncated cone, truncated cylinder, cuboid, parallelepiped, leaning hexagonal prism.

Condition good (chip to apex of cone); complete

References

Events

Description
Based in Paris, L. Hachette was a publisher who produced educational textbooks on the practical arts such as Geométrie théorique et pratique avec de nombreuses application au dessin linéaire (1848). It is possible that this set of geometrical solids accompanied a text to help illustrate diagrams or to solve mathematical exercises. Alternatively, this set could have been sold on its own to complement the private study of geometry. There are fifteen solids included in this set: octahedron; cube; segment; cone; truncated pentagonal pyramid; pentagonal pyramid; leaning pentagonal pyramid; cylinder; hexagonal prism; dodecahedron; truncated cone; truncated cylinder; cuboid; parallelepiped and leaning hexagonal prism.

11/03/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 11/03/2014

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