Model showing a pair of cones enveloping a sphere and a plane

Made:
1886-1888 in Broughton
supplier:
Cussons, George
Model showing a pair of cones enveloping a sphere and a plane

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Model showing a pair of cones enveloping a sphere and a plane
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Model showing a pair of cones enveloping a sphere and a plane, tangential to them, also a method of drawing a plane at given inclination to the co-ordinate planes

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1888-162
type:
surface model (string)
credit:
Cussons, George

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