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The abstract: For a quartic double solid \(Z @>\varphi>> \mathbb{P}^3\) we study the parameter space of conics (i.e. of smooth rational curves \(C\subset Z\) such that \(C\cdot \varphi^* {\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}^3} (1)=2)\). This parameter space is naturally fibred (with disconnected fibres) over \(\check \mathbb{P}^3\). We study the monodromy of the fibres and determine in this way the irreducible components of the parameter space. From the text: Let \(\check \mathbb{P}^3\) be the space of planes in \(\mathbb{P}^3\) and \({\mathcal S}\) the universal subbundle over \(\check \mathbb{P}^3=\text{Grass}(3,4)\). Then \(P:=\mathbb{P} (\text{Sym}^2 {\mathcal S}^\vee)\) is the parameter space of all conics in \(\mathbb{P}^3\). (Every conic is determined by a plane and a symmetric form of degree two in this plane. On the other hand, every conic determines a unique plane which it sits in and in that plane it determines a symmetric 2-form which is unique up to multiplication by scalars. Even for a double line there is a unique plane in which it is contained. It is determined by the non-reduced subscheme structure of the double line.) The projection \(p:P\to \check\mathbb{P}^3\) assigns to each conic the unique plane which it is contained in. The space \(X\) of tangent conics is contained in this parameter space \(P\). Restricting the projection \(P\to \check\mathbb{P}^3\) to \(X\subset P\) we get a map \(X\to \check\mathbb{P}^3\) assigning to each conic the plane which it sits in. The fibres of this projection are studied.