Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10353
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Asbestos
Date
1752
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X23/5
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 197mm
width (print): 146mm
width (print): 146mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of a sample of asbestos in pure form.
This sample was excavated in Tyrol, Austria.
Plate 39 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed: ‘Tabula XXXIX. ASBESTUS.’
This sample was excavated in Tyrol, Austria.
Plate 39 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed: ‘Tabula XXXIX. ASBESTUS.’
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