Around 1900, mathematicians across the world acquired physical models, both to illustrate concepts they taught and to demonstrate their familiarity with new ideas. They frequently purchased models ...

To illustrate the Pythagorean Theorem, makers of geometric models have long made models with pieces that could be arranged either as a square with a side equal to the length of the hypotenuse of a ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...