Diatoms
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 freshwater diatoms viewed by microscope under magnification. With details of individual single-celled creatures and the material at natural size.
Plate 72 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.LXXII.’
The accompanying text is headed ‘Table LXXII. Un peu de Mousse de Limon.’ The author states that: ‘Cette Production du Regne des Plantes aquatiques a bien du Rapport avec les Polypes. Car elle paroit s’étendre & se multiplier de la même Facon que ces Animaux merveilleux’. [This production of the reign of aquatic plants has much in common with polyps. Because they seem to expand & multiply in the same way as those wonderful Animals]
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 72 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.LXXII.’
The accompanying text is headed ‘Table LXXII. Un peu de Mousse de Limon.’ The author states that: ‘Cette Production du Regne des Plantes aquatiques a bien du Rapport avec les Polypes. Car elle paroit s’étendre & se multiplier de la même Facon que ces Animaux merveilleux’. [This production of the reign of aquatic plants has much in common with polyps. Because they seem to expand & multiply in the same way as those wonderful Animals]
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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