Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18714

    Cardiac polyp and sunspot

    Date
    1684
    Creator
    Michael Burghers (1630, Dutch) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (page): 213mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > heart
    Description
    Four figures from issue 157 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, including a cardiac polyp and sunspot.

    Figures 1-3. Anatomical studies of a cardiac polyp. Illustrations to ‘An account of a polypus found in the heart of a person that died epileptical, at Oxon’ by William Gould in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 157 (20 March 1684).

    Figure 4. Diagram illustrating a sunspot, as observed between April-June, 1683. Illustration to ‘An account of a spot seen in the Sun from the 25th. Of April to the 8th. Of May instant, with the line of its course predicted, if it make a second return’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 157 (20 March 1684).

    ‘Inscribed: ‘Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 157.
    MBurghers Sculp.’

    ‘MBurghers’ possibly refers to Michael Burghers (c.1647-1727), Dutch illustrator and artist, who spent most of his career working in England.
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