Aneurism, geometric diagrams
Date
1700
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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Five figures from issue 267 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures I-III. Anatomical studies of an aneurism of an artery near the heart of Jean Potin, showing the heart, the aneurism (I, II) and the sternum bone (III). Illustrations to ‘I. An account of an extraordinary aneurisma of the arteria aorta near to the easis of the heart, with the symptoms thereof; dissected by Mr Lasage, surgeon, on the 10th of April, 1700’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 267 (December 1700).
Original illustration first shown at a meeting of the Society on 22 May 1700, and can be found in MS/131/108-B, p.119.
Figures IV-V. Geometric diagrams illustrating ‘III. De iride, sive de arcu cælesti, dissertatio geometrica, quo methodo directâ iridis utriusq; diameter, data ratione refractionis, obtinertur: Cum solutione inversi problematis, sive inventione rationis istius ex data arcus diametro. Per Edm. Halley Reg. Soc. Soc’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 267 (December 1700).
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
Figures I-III. Anatomical studies of an aneurism of an artery near the heart of Jean Potin, showing the heart, the aneurism (I, II) and the sternum bone (III). Illustrations to ‘I. An account of an extraordinary aneurisma of the arteria aorta near to the easis of the heart, with the symptoms thereof; dissected by Mr Lasage, surgeon, on the 10th of April, 1700’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 267 (December 1700).
Original illustration first shown at a meeting of the Society on 22 May 1700, and can be found in MS/131/108-B, p.119.
Figures IV-V. Geometric diagrams illustrating ‘III. De iride, sive de arcu cælesti, dissertatio geometrica, quo methodo directâ iridis utriusq; diameter, data ratione refractionis, obtinertur: Cum solutione inversi problematis, sive inventione rationis istius ex data arcus diametro. Per Edm. Halley Reg. Soc. Soc’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 267 (December 1700).
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1678.
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Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
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