Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16422

    Coral

    Date
    1761
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p95
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 207mm
    width (paper): 222mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Drawing of coral by J. Rhodius, for Job Baster, ‘On zoophytes’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 52 (1761), pp. 108-18, tab. 4.
    Transcription
    Fig. I, Fig. II, FIg. III
    J. Rhodius ad vivum pinxit
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Job Baster, ‘On zoophytes’, Phil. Trans., vol. 52 (1761), pp. 108-18, tab. 4. The figures are explained at p. 114, which also refers to John Ellis's descriptions of corals in the form of a fir tree.
    Related fellows
    Job Baster (1709 - 1775, Dutch) , Physician
    Associated place
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