Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18201

    Moth wing scales

    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 (page): 245mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Entomology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Studies of insect wing scales, including the moth observed developing in red fir tree cones [plates 64-65] under magnification.

    Plate 66 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.LXVI.’

    The accompanying text lacks the usual heading, simply continuing previous observations as ‘Table LXVI’.

    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.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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