Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18645

    Rose pistil

    Date
    1766
    Creator
    Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
    After
    Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Library reference
    48660
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 245mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Botany
    Description
    Studies of the reproductive organs and seeds of the rose: main figure is the pistil, with details of the ovary and other features, dissected and under magnification. With a rose-hip (figure k).

    Plate 80 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1764).

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB.LXXX.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXXX. Les Epines, Piquans, le Pistile avec Ovaire &c. de la Rose’ [Thorns, quills, pistil with ovary of the rose]

    Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
    Associated place
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