Life cycle of a frog and carnation
1669
Jan Swammerdam (1637 - 1680, Dutch) , Biologist
Meinardus van Dreunen, Publisher
height (plate): 277mm
width (plate): 178mm
width (plate): 178mm
Biological study comparing the life cycle of a frog with a carnation. Six figures showing the stages of metamorphosis of a frog alongside nine figures depicting the changes of a plant.
Inscribed ‘TAB XII QUARTUS ORDO. Nympha vermiforms. Wurm gelyk popken.’
Plate 12 from Historia insectorum generalis by Jan Swammerdam published by Meinardus van Dreunen (Utrecht, 1669)
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. He continued Robert Hooke’s observations of insects in more systematic research which employed a single lens microscope. From the late 1660s, he dissected and studied the development of these creatures, noting their internal organs and methods of reproduction – he concluded that insects were not the product of spontaneous generation.
Inscribed ‘TAB XII QUARTUS ORDO. Nympha vermiforms. Wurm gelyk popken.’
Plate 12 from Historia insectorum generalis by Jan Swammerdam published by Meinardus van Dreunen (Utrecht, 1669)
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. He continued Robert Hooke’s observations of insects in more systematic research which employed a single lens microscope. From the late 1660s, he dissected and studied the development of these creatures, noting their internal organs and methods of reproduction – he concluded that insects were not the product of spontaneous generation.