‘Muscae polonicae’
Date
1685
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Library reference
7838
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 160mm
width (print): 160mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two views of a flying insect, seen from the side: one at natural size and one viewed under a low powered microscope. The author describes the fly as ‘Muscis polonicus’: the illustration appears to show a variety of sawfly or horntail.
Plate associated with Observation 40, ‘De Muscis polonicis exitiosis’, by Gottfried Samuel Polis, Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica…1685 (Nuremburg, 1686) pp.98-100.
Inscribed above: ‘Muscae poloicae vera facies antica. Fol.99. Fig.VII. VIII.’ Inscribed below: ‘Muscae polonicae antica facies per microscopium observata.’ The binding location of the plate is given above and below: ‘p.99. Dec II’.
Gottfried Samuel Polis [sometimes Polisius] (1636-1700), German physician and natural philosopher, was court physician to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg.
Plate associated with Observation 40, ‘De Muscis polonicis exitiosis’, by Gottfried Samuel Polis, Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica…1685 (Nuremburg, 1686) pp.98-100.
Inscribed above: ‘Muscae poloicae vera facies antica. Fol.99. Fig.VII. VIII.’ Inscribed below: ‘Muscae polonicae antica facies per microscopium observata.’ The binding location of the plate is given above and below: ‘p.99. Dec II’.
Gottfried Samuel Polis [sometimes Polisius] (1636-1700), German physician and natural philosopher, was court physician to Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg.
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