Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18145

    Crystals from wines

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
    After
    Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Library reference
    48660
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 245mm
    width (print): 195mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Two studies of crystal formations (‘Spicula salis’) from varieties of wine viewed by microscope. Figure 1 (top) shows crystals from a burgundy. Figure 2 (bottom) shows crystals from a Schweinfort vintage wine.

    Plate 43 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1764).

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB.XLIII.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table XLIII. Figure 1. Particules de Sel du Vin de Bourgogne.’ [salt grains from Burgundy wine] and ‘Figure 2. Particules de Sel du Vin de Franconie’ [salt grains from Franconia wine].

    Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
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