Crystallised salts
Date
1764
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 (print): 245mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Studies of the formation crystals of salts viewed by microscope under magnification. Figure 1 shows a drop of a distilled solution of verdegris (copper carbonate or copper II acetate) by solar microscope. Figure 2 shows the crystallisation of borax (‘les Coagulations du Sel sedative’).
Plate 3 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.III.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.Lederm. del. A.W.W. excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table III. De la Formation des Sels’.
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.
Plate 3 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.III.’ Inscribed below: ‘M.F.Lederm. del. A.W.W. excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table III. De la Formation des Sels’.
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.
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