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Image number: RS.10416
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The stomach and guts of a sheep and the gullet of a calf
Date
1681
Object type
Image reference
Library reference
18848
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 285mm
width (print): 175mm
width (print): 175mm
Subject
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Description
Studies of the stomachs and guts of a sheep, with smaller illustrations showing ‘The Muscules of the Gulet of a Calf’ and ‘The Omasus or Feck of a Sheep’ (the third part of the stomach of a ruminant).
Table 26 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge ... whereunto is subjoined The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts, by Nehemiah Grew (London, 1681).
Nehemiah Grew FRS gave a series of anatomy lectures to the Royal Society in 1676. The lectures were published in 1681 as ‘The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts’, a separate work published with Grew’s catalogue of the Royal Society’s museum collection, or Repository.
Table 26 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge ... whereunto is subjoined The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts, by Nehemiah Grew (London, 1681).
Nehemiah Grew FRS gave a series of anatomy lectures to the Royal Society in 1676. The lectures were published in 1681 as ‘The comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts’, a separate work published with Grew’s catalogue of the Royal Society’s museum collection, or Repository.
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