Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21728

    Fossilised wood

    Date
    1637
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    R64776
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 234mm
    width (plate): 169mm
    height (page): 280mm
    width (page): 198mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > fossil
    Description
    Four studies of fossilised wood.

    Inscribed with the plate number ‘11’ and individual figures ‘E-H’.

    Plate 11 to Trattato del Legno Fossile Minerale Nuovamente Scoperto [Treatise of the newly discovered fossilised mineralised wood] by Francesco Stelluti (1637)

    Francesco Stelluti (1577-1652), Italian naturalist, was a founding member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
    Associated place
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          > Italy
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