Shark's gills
Date
22 May 1675
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 308mm
width (page): 235mm
width (page): 235mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Etching of fish. One lateral view of a shark and two views of the gills when the shark has opened its jaws. This image is archived with a text (attributed to 'A. I.') about fishes' swim bladders, which was read by Henry Oldenburg at the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 May 1675, and printed, with Robert Boyle's comments, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 10, no. 114 (1675).
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on May 1675, ‘Secondly, a paper [was read] written by an anonymous author, containing a conjecture about the bladders of air, that are found in fishes, and the manner and organ, whereby fishes move to and fro in water, from one depth to another’ (Birch 3:219).
‘A Conjecture Concerning the Bladders of Air That are Found in Fishes, Communicated by A. I; And Illustrated by an Experiment Suggested by the Honorable Robert Boyle’, Phil. Trans., vol. 10, no. 114 (1675), pp. 310-11.
‘A Conjecture Concerning the Bladders of Air That are Found in Fishes, Communicated by A. I; And Illustrated by an Experiment Suggested by the Honorable Robert Boyle’, Phil. Trans., vol. 10, no. 114 (1675), pp. 310-11.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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