Geometrical diagrams and study of a stomach
Date
1684
Creator
Michael Burghers (1630, Dutch) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Description
Eleven figures from issue 162 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-8. Geometrical diagrams illustrating certain of Euclid’s propositions. Illustrations to ‘A new and easy way of demonstrating some propositions in euclid by the learned Mr. Ash. A member of the Philosophical Society of Dublin for promoting natural knowledge’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 162 (20 August 1684).
Figure 9. Geometrical diagram illustrating a theory of tides times at ‘Tonqueen’, Vietnam. Illustration to ‘An account of the course of the tides at Tonqueen in a letter from Mr. Francis Davenport July 15. 167 […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 162 (20 August 1684). Original illustration is available in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/21/15.
Figures 10-11. Anatomical study of the stomach (10) and the gastric glands (11) of a ‘Jack’ [jackal?] Illustrations to ‘An abstract of a journal of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, being an account of some experiments relating to digestion read before that Society, and of a large bed of glands observ’d in the stomach of a Jack’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 162 (20 August 1684).
Inscribed below: ‘MBurg. Sculp.’
‘MBurg Sculp.’ possibly refers to Michael Burghers (c.1647-1727), Dutch illustrator and artist, who spent most of his career working in England.
Figures 1-8. Geometrical diagrams illustrating certain of Euclid’s propositions. Illustrations to ‘A new and easy way of demonstrating some propositions in euclid by the learned Mr. Ash. A member of the Philosophical Society of Dublin for promoting natural knowledge’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 162 (20 August 1684).
Figure 9. Geometrical diagram illustrating a theory of tides times at ‘Tonqueen’, Vietnam. Illustration to ‘An account of the course of the tides at Tonqueen in a letter from Mr. Francis Davenport July 15. 167 […]’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 162 (20 August 1684). Original illustration is available in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/21/15.
Figures 10-11. Anatomical study of the stomach (10) and the gastric glands (11) of a ‘Jack’ [jackal?] Illustrations to ‘An abstract of a journal of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, being an account of some experiments relating to digestion read before that Society, and of a large bed of glands observ’d in the stomach of a Jack’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 14, issue 162 (20 August 1684).
Inscribed below: ‘MBurg. Sculp.’
‘MBurg Sculp.’ 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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