Furnace
Date
1799
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
RCN30834
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 206mm
width (print): 132mm
width (print): 132mm
Subject
Description
Front elevation of a brick-lined laboratory furnace.
Plate 2 from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 5 (Paris 1799).
Inscribed above: ‘Planche II.’ The print has a key to the main working elements of the furnace, labelled A-M, and below, ‘Echelle de Six Pieds’ (scale of six feet).
The accompanying text states that: ‘On jugera de la grandeur de chaque partie de ce fourneau, par les échelles qui sont au bas de chaques figures, qui ont été exactments levees sur le fourneau qui etoit au Jardin royal des plantes, par M. Gouffier.’ (The size of each part of this furnace will be judged by the scales at the bottom of every figure, which have been exactly based upon the furnace which was in the Royal Garden of Plants by M. Gouffier).
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
Plate 2 from the book Histoire naturelle, généralle et particuliére…Nouvelle edition, by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and C.S. Sonnini, volume 5 (Paris 1799).
Inscribed above: ‘Planche II.’ The print has a key to the main working elements of the furnace, labelled A-M, and below, ‘Echelle de Six Pieds’ (scale of six feet).
The accompanying text states that: ‘On jugera de la grandeur de chaque partie de ce fourneau, par les échelles qui sont au bas de chaques figures, qui ont été exactments levees sur le fourneau qui etoit au Jardin royal des plantes, par M. Gouffier.’ (The size of each part of this furnace will be judged by the scales at the bottom of every figure, which have been exactly based upon the furnace which was in the Royal Garden of Plants by M. Gouffier).
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and man of science, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740.
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), French naturalist.
Associated place