Pneumatic motor, pig head
Date
1699
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Eleven figures from issue 259 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures I-X. Detail views of various pieces of a pneumatic motor. Illustrations to ‘I. A letter from Mr. Thomas Luffkin to Dr. Sloane, concerning the application of the pneumatick engine to cupping-glasses’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 259 (December 1699).
Figure XI. Zoological study of the head of a ‘monstrous’ pig, with an inverted under jaw, that covers the eye sockets. Illustration to ‘IV. A relation of two monstrous pigs, with the resemblance of humane faces, and two young turkeys joined by the breast’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 259 (December 1699).
Figures I-X. Detail views of various pieces of a pneumatic motor. Illustrations to ‘I. A letter from Mr. Thomas Luffkin to Dr. Sloane, concerning the application of the pneumatick engine to cupping-glasses’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 259 (December 1699).
Figure XI. Zoological study of the head of a ‘monstrous’ pig, with an inverted under jaw, that covers the eye sockets. Illustration to ‘IV. A relation of two monstrous pigs, with the resemblance of humane faces, and two young turkeys joined by the breast’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 259 (December 1699).
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