Hyperbolical cylindroid and human uterus
Date
1669
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
width (paper): 205mm
height (paper): 265mm
height (paper): 265mm
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Content object
Description
Two figures to issue 48 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Fig. I Mathematical diagram showing the axis of a cylinder as a hyperbolic surface.
Fig. II Anatomical study of the human uterus in the third or fourth month of pregnancy, showing the foetus attached outside the womb (ectopic).
Inscribed ‘Transact No.48, Fig. I-II'
Fig. I Illustration to Generatio Corporis Cylindroidis Hyperbolici (The Generation of an Hyperbolical Cylindroid), by Christopher Wren, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, issue 48, pp. 961-962 (21 June 1669). The original paper can be found in the Classified papers of the Royal Society CLP/1/11 and copied into the Register Book of the Royal Society RBO/4/71 and again in the Register Book Copy RBC/3/150.’
Fig. II Illustration to An account concerning a woman having a double matrix, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, issue 48, pp. 969-970 (21 June 1669).
Christopher Wren was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1660, he served as its President from 1680 to 1682. Wren was a founder of the Society.
Fig. I Mathematical diagram showing the axis of a cylinder as a hyperbolic surface.
Fig. II Anatomical study of the human uterus in the third or fourth month of pregnancy, showing the foetus attached outside the womb (ectopic).
Inscribed ‘Transact No.48, Fig. I-II'
Fig. I Illustration to Generatio Corporis Cylindroidis Hyperbolici (The Generation of an Hyperbolical Cylindroid), by Christopher Wren, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, issue 48, pp. 961-962 (21 June 1669). The original paper can be found in the Classified papers of the Royal Society CLP/1/11 and copied into the Register Book of the Royal Society RBO/4/71 and again in the Register Book Copy RBC/3/150.’
Fig. II Illustration to An account concerning a woman having a double matrix, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 4, issue 48, pp. 969-970 (21 June 1669).
Christopher Wren was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1660, he served as its President from 1680 to 1682. Wren was a founder of the Society.
Related fellows
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
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