Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11803

    Salt crystals

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Studies of salt crystals (sodium chloride) created by evaporation of salt water at different stages of completion and viewed by microscope, under magnification. Two figures with one inset detail to show a specimen at natural size.

    Plate 7 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.VII.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table VII. La Cristalisation du Sel ordinaire.’

    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.
    Associated place
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