Tortoise heart
Date
1710
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
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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.
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
Credit
©The Royal Society
Image number
RS.18933