Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16930

    Rare insect

    Date
    1703
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 168mm
    width (page): 215mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    nature
    Description
    This drawing depicts a rare insect. It appears in the second of J. J. Scheuchzer's four manuscript volumes describing his journey through the Alps in the early 18th century.

    Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician, who was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703. He was interested in natural history, fossil records and traces of the impact of the Biblical Flood. The Royal Society sponsored the publication of Scheuchzer's description of the Swiss Alps, [Ouresiphoitis] Helveticus, sive itineris alpini, with several Fellows offering subscriptions to defray the cost of the engravings. As was common practice, the printed illustrations bore the name of the subscriber at the bottom of the plate.
    Object history
    Printed in Part 2, Tab. 1 from J. J. Scheuchzer, [Ouresiphoitis] Helveticus, sive itineris alpini (London, 1708). (First edition in three parts. A second edition with an additional fourth part was published in Leiden in 1723.)
    Related fellows
    Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733, Swiss) , Physician
    Associated place
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          > Switzerland
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