Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18706

    Anatomy of a rattlesnake

    Date
    1683
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 150mm
    width (page): 213mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > snake
    Description
    Three figures from issue 144 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, depicting the anatomy of a rattlesnake, Crotalus.

    Figure 1. Study of the main body, containing the lungs, heart, gullet and stomach.
    Figure 2. Study of the main body, containing the intestines, gall bladder, pancreas and anus.
    Figure 3. Study of the hemipenis.

    Illustrations to ‘Vipera caudi-sona Americana, or the anatomy of a rattlesnake, dissected at the repository of the Royal Society in January 1692’ by Edward Tyson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 13, issue 144 (10 February 1683).

    Edward Tyson (1651-1708) British physician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679.
    Related fellows
    Edward Tyson (1650 - 1708, British) , Physician
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