Tortoise heart

    Date
    1710
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Description
    Four figures from issue 328 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

    Figure 1. The heart of a land tortoise, testudinidae.
    Figure 2. The heart of the same opened, to show its ventricles.
    Figure 3. The atrium of the heart.
    figure 4. The heart and surrounding arteries.

    Illustrations to ‘I. An anatomical description of the heart of land tortoises from America’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 27, issye 328 (December 1710).

    Paul Buissiere (c.1655-1739), French surgeon, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1699.
    Related fellows
    Paul Buissiere (1650 - 1739, French ) , Surgeon
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > France
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Credit
    ©The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.18933
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