Northern needleleaf specimen, occipital bone
Date
1699
Creator
John Sturt (1658 - 1730, British) , Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
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Description
Four figures from issue 251 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure I. Botanical study of a northern needleleaf specimen, Tillandsia balbisiana, referred to here as Viscum cariophylloides, showing its stem, leaves and flowers. Illustration to ‘II. Some observations made at a meeting of the Royal Society, concerning some wonderful contrivances of nature in a family of plants in Jamaica […]’ by Hans Sloane in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 251 (April 1699).
Figures I-III. Anatomical studies of the occipital bone, as seen from the front and back. Illustration to ‘VI. An abstract of an accoun of five pair of muscles, which serve for different motions of the head, on the first and second vertebra of the neck; and of two ligaments, one of which fastens the head to the first vertebra, and the other fastens the first to the second. To which is annext the history of an uncommon appearance of a humane skull’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 251 (April 1699).
Inscribed below ‘I. Sturt Sculp’; in reference to the copperplate engraver John Sturt (1658-1730).
Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685. Sloane initially travelled to Jamaica as personal physician of Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle and newly appointed governor of the island. By the time he arrived, Jamaica was an English royal colony; his employer was there to help establish imperial control.
Figure I. Botanical study of a northern needleleaf specimen, Tillandsia balbisiana, referred to here as Viscum cariophylloides, showing its stem, leaves and flowers. Illustration to ‘II. Some observations made at a meeting of the Royal Society, concerning some wonderful contrivances of nature in a family of plants in Jamaica […]’ by Hans Sloane in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 251 (April 1699).
Figures I-III. Anatomical studies of the occipital bone, as seen from the front and back. Illustration to ‘VI. An abstract of an accoun of five pair of muscles, which serve for different motions of the head, on the first and second vertebra of the neck; and of two ligaments, one of which fastens the head to the first vertebra, and the other fastens the first to the second. To which is annext the history of an uncommon appearance of a humane skull’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 251 (April 1699).
Inscribed below ‘I. Sturt Sculp’; in reference to the copperplate engraver John Sturt (1658-1730).
Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685. Sloane initially travelled to Jamaica as personal physician of Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle and newly appointed governor of the island. By the time he arrived, Jamaica was an English royal colony; his employer was there to help establish imperial control.
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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