Liver, water engine, shells
Date
1685
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Eight figures from issue 178 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure 1. A liver displaying symptoms of laennec’s cirrhosis. Illustration to ‘A remarkable account of a liver, appearing glandulous to the eye; communicated by Mr. John Brown’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 178 (December 1685).
Figure 2. New water fountain, as designed by Denis Papin, in ‘A full description, with the use, of the new contrivance for raising water propounded in the Phil Trans. No.173’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 178 (December 1685). Original illustration first shown at meeting of the Royal Society on 13 January 1686, recorded in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/10/100, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/10, p.360a.
Figures 3-8. Various shell specimens of the purpura family, illustrating ‘A letter from Mr. William Cole of Bristol, to the Phil. Society of Oxford; containing his observations of purple fish’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 178 (December 1685).
Inscribed in the bottom right corner: 'MBurghers Sculp'; possibly a reference to Michael Burghers (c.1647-1727), Dutch illustrator and artist, who spent most of his career in England.
Figure 1. A liver displaying symptoms of laennec’s cirrhosis. Illustration to ‘A remarkable account of a liver, appearing glandulous to the eye; communicated by Mr. John Brown’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 178 (December 1685).
Figure 2. New water fountain, as designed by Denis Papin, in ‘A full description, with the use, of the new contrivance for raising water propounded in the Phil Trans. No.173’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 178 (December 1685). Original illustration first shown at meeting of the Royal Society on 13 January 1686, recorded in Letter Book Original of the Royal Society LBO/10/100, and copied into Letter Book Copy LBC/10, p.360a.
Figures 3-8. Various shell specimens of the purpura family, illustrating ‘A letter from Mr. William Cole of Bristol, to the Phil. Society of Oxford; containing his observations of purple fish’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 178 (December 1685).
Inscribed in the bottom right corner: 'MBurghers Sculp'; possibly a reference to Michael Burghers (c.1647-1727), Dutch illustrator and artist, who spent most of his career in England.
Related fellows
Denis Papin (1647, French) , Natural Philosopher
Associated place
Credit
©The Royal Society
Image number
RS.18756
