Heart anatomy
Date
1705
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
Subject
Content object
Description
Five figures from issue 299 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, depicting various anatomical studies.
Figure I. The left ventricle of a heart, opened and pinned back, showing the aorta and surrounding arteries.
Figure II. Part of the aorta, showing the trabeculae carneae and mitral valve.
Figure III. The aorta, trabeculae carneae and mitral valve after anatomical petrification.
Figures IV-V. The aorta, trabeculae carneae and mitral valve after drying.
Illustrations to ‘Of officiations or petrifications in the coats of arteries, particularly in the valves of the great artery’ by William Cowper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 299 (May 1705).
William Cowper (c.1666-1709) British surgeon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699.
Figure I. The left ventricle of a heart, opened and pinned back, showing the aorta and surrounding arteries.
Figure II. Part of the aorta, showing the trabeculae carneae and mitral valve.
Figure III. The aorta, trabeculae carneae and mitral valve after anatomical petrification.
Figures IV-V. The aorta, trabeculae carneae and mitral valve after drying.
Illustrations to ‘Of officiations or petrifications in the coats of arteries, particularly in the valves of the great artery’ by William Cowper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 299 (May 1705).
William Cowper (c.1666-1709) British surgeon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699.
Related fellows
William Cowper (1661 - 1709, British) , Surgeon
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