Mesentery and star stones
Date
1675
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 150mm
width (page): 217mm
width (page): 217mm
Subject
Content object
Description
18 figures from issue 112 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, including a ruptured mesentery as observed by Jan Swamerdam [right] and a selection of star stones as observed by Martin Lister [left].
Illustrations to ‘Extracts of three letters: The one of M. Hugens, about a new invention of very exact and portative watches, serving to find longitudes both at sea and Land: The Second, of Dr. Swammerdam, touching an unusual rupture of the mercentery: The third, containing some observations of Mr. Lister about the star-stones; together with Mr Rays annotations thereon’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 10, issue 112 (20 March 1675).
Original letter from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg containing star stones was first read at a meeting of the Society on 22 January 1674 and available in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society, LBO/7/5, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/7/22a.
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) Dutch biologist and microscopist was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, and; Martin Lister (1639-1712), British physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1671.
Illustrations to ‘Extracts of three letters: The one of M. Hugens, about a new invention of very exact and portative watches, serving to find longitudes both at sea and Land: The Second, of Dr. Swammerdam, touching an unusual rupture of the mercentery: The third, containing some observations of Mr. Lister about the star-stones; together with Mr Rays annotations thereon’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 10, issue 112 (20 March 1675).
Original letter from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg containing star stones was first read at a meeting of the Society on 22 January 1674 and available in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society, LBO/7/5, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/7/22a.
Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) Dutch biologist and microscopist was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, and; Martin Lister (1639-1712), British physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1671.
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