Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10243
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Insect studies with human spermatozoa
Date
1721
Creator
T. Cole (British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
29715
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 264mm
width (print): 213mm
width (print): 213mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Entomological studies of various insects with microscope views of human sperm and freshwater daphnia. Figure 1 “The Bull-Beetle; from the Royal Society.” Figure 2 “The Animalcula in Semine Masculino.” Figure 3 “The last state of the large Gnat.” Figure 4 “A Centipes [centipede]; from the West Indies.” Figure 5 “A Monoculus found in Thames Water, by the Microscope.”
Plate 25 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on five pieces of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate XXV. T.Cole sculp.“
Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712.
Plate 25 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on five pieces of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate XXV. T.Cole sculp.“
Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712.
Object history
Figure 1 on this plate is a specimen from the Royal Society’s Repository.
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