Hydra
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
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Description
Study of a colony of brown freshwater hydra viewed by microscope under magnification, with details on individual specimens.
Plate 71 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.LXXI.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXXI. Les Polypes bruns à longs Bras’ [Brown polyps with long arms]. Accompanying text describing the figure commences: ‘Une espece qui est representee sur cette Estampe a) pendant a un Rameau, & puis détachée c) d), a le Corps tout d’une Pièce depuis la Tète jusqu’ au Derrière, quoi qu’il aille en diminuant’ [A species which is represented in this plate a) hanging from a branch, & then detached c); d) has an intact body from head to rear, however it shrinks…]
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 71 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.LXXI.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Table LXXI. Les Polypes bruns à longs Bras’ [Brown polyps with long arms]. Accompanying text describing the figure commences: ‘Une espece qui est representee sur cette Estampe a) pendant a un Rameau, & puis détachée c) d), a le Corps tout d’une Pièce depuis la Tète jusqu’ au Derrière, quoi qu’il aille en diminuant’ [A species which is represented in this plate a) hanging from a branch, & then detached c); d) has an intact body from head to rear, however it shrinks…]
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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