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Image number: RS.10264
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Sections of the Tibia
Date
1800
Creator
Faustino Anderloni (1766 - 1847, Italian) , Engraver
After
Faustino Anderloni (1766 - 1847, Italian)
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X277/6
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 240mm
width (print): 180mm
width (print): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sections of a human Tibia.
Fig.1. An adult human’s Tibia, dried and placed in oil of turpentine to better highlight the construction of the bone.
Fig.2. The Tibia of a ‘mean person’ with a hole in it (b)
Fig.3. Cross-section of a Tibia
Fig.4. The bone cortex from the middle of the Tibia where the bone is strongest and firmest
Plate 2 from Internal Build of the Bone by Anton Scarpa, FRS (Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1800). Inscribed: ‘Tab II. Anderloni delin et Sculp.’
Fig.1. An adult human’s Tibia, dried and placed in oil of turpentine to better highlight the construction of the bone.
Fig.2. The Tibia of a ‘mean person’ with a hole in it (b)
Fig.3. Cross-section of a Tibia
Fig.4. The bone cortex from the middle of the Tibia where the bone is strongest and firmest
Plate 2 from Internal Build of the Bone by Anton Scarpa, FRS (Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1800). Inscribed: ‘Tab II. Anderloni delin et Sculp.’
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