Calf optic nerve
Date
1766
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
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Studies of the anatomy of an optic nerve viewed by microscope under magnification. Two microscope field views, with comparable figures, circled, at normal size, with several details, including figure a, showing the nerve in relation to the calf’s eye.
Plate 51 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, 1766).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB.LI.’ Inscribed below: ‘A. W. Winterschmidt exc. Norb.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LI. Le nerf optique d’un Veau.’ [The optic nerve of a calf].
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.
Plate 51 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, 1766).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB.LI.’ Inscribed below: ‘A. W. Winterschmidt exc. Norb.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LI. Le nerf optique d’un Veau.’ [The optic nerve of a calf].
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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