Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18752

    Antiquities, sea lark and kidney stones

    Date
    1685
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 213mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Art & culture
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    human body
       > kidney stone
    Description
    Twelve figures from issue 175 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

    Figures 1-8. Various antiquities communicated to the Society, including: a brass ring (1); an amulet, possibly from a Gnostic community (2); various tesserae (3, 4, 7); cameo portraits (5, 6); an onyx stone (7), and; a lacrymatory. Illustrations to ‘The figures of some antiquities; communicated by a Member of the Royal Society’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 175 (October 1685).

    Figure 9. Ornithological study of a lark, alaudidae, referred to here as a sea lark. Illustration to ‘A letter of Dr. Lister’s to Mr Ray, concerning some particulars that might be added to the Ornithology’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 175 (October 1685).

    Figures 10-11. Two kidney stones. Illustrations to ‘An abstract of a letter from the learned Dr. Cole Physician at Worcester, dated May the 13th. 1685, concerning stones voided per penem’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 175 (October 1685).

    Figure 12. Representation of the use of a sextant, by John Wallis. Illustration to ‘Accounts of three books. I Johannis Hevelii, Consulis Dantiscani, Annus Climactericus. Gedani 1685 […] in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 175 (October 1685).
    Related fellows
    Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
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