Tub gurnard, preparing smalt and arsenic
Date
1704
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Michael Vandergucht (1660 - 1725, Flemish) , Engraver
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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Five figures from issue 293 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-4. Depictions of the furnace (1-3) and grinder (4) used in making smalt and arsenic from cobalt. Illustrations to ‘Part of a letter from Dr David Krieg, F. R. S. to the publisher, concerning cobalt, and the preparations of smalt and arsenic’ in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 24, issue 293 (October 1704).
Figure 5. Zoological study of a tub gurnard, Chelidonichthys lucerna, as seen from above. Illustration from ‘Cuculus lævis cæruleo flavescens, cui in supremo capite bronchiarum opercula. Or, the yellow gurnard’ by Edward Tyson in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 24, issue 293 (October 1704).
Inscribed in bottom right hand corner: ‘M: V dr: Gucht Sculp’, possibly refers to Michael Vandergucht (1660-1725), a Flemish engraver who worked for most of his career in England.
David Krieg (1669-1710), German physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699, and; Edward Tyson (1651-1708) British physician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679.
Figures 1-4. Depictions of the furnace (1-3) and grinder (4) used in making smalt and arsenic from cobalt. Illustrations to ‘Part of a letter from Dr David Krieg, F. R. S. to the publisher, concerning cobalt, and the preparations of smalt and arsenic’ in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 24, issue 293 (October 1704).
Figure 5. Zoological study of a tub gurnard, Chelidonichthys lucerna, as seen from above. Illustration from ‘Cuculus lævis cæruleo flavescens, cui in supremo capite bronchiarum opercula. Or, the yellow gurnard’ by Edward Tyson in Philosophical Transactions, vol. 24, issue 293 (October 1704).
Inscribed in bottom right hand corner: ‘M: V dr: Gucht Sculp’, possibly refers to Michael Vandergucht (1660-1725), a Flemish engraver who worked for most of his career in England.
David Krieg (1669-1710), German physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699, and; Edward Tyson (1651-1708) British physician was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679.
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