Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19040

    Human uterus and the ‘Florentine problem’

    Date
    1694
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > uterus
    Description
    Fig. 1-2 Anatomical illustrations of the human uterus, showing an egg found in the fallopian tube. Illustrations to A letter from Monr. Buissiere, a French anatomist and surgeon, concerning an egg found in the tuba fallopiana of a women lately dissected; with several remarks touching generation. Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.18, issue 207 (January 1694) pp.11-14. Read to the Royal Society 24 January 1694 JBO/9/151, the original paper can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/B2/39.

    Fig. 3. Mathematical figure showing David Gregory’s solution to the ‘Florentine’ problem. Illustration to Solutio problematis Florentini de Testitudie Veliformi Quadrabili, a Davide Gregorio, M.D. ac R.S.S. Communicata, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.18, issue 207 (January 1694) pp.25-29. Read to the Royal Society 24 January 1694, JBO/9 pp. 149-150. The original paper sent to Edmond Halley, can be found in the Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/1/21.


    Transcription
    Fig. I. Matrice de la femme
    aa Le corps de la matrice.
    bb. La trompe dilatee embrassant. d.
    c. L’oeuf impregné refermé dans la trompe.
    e. L’ovaire gauche.
    h. L’artere hypogastrique.
    ii. Les ligaments ronds.
    k. L’oeuf detaché de l’ovaire.
    l. Le pedicule par lequel il tenoit encore a l’ovaire.

    Fig. II. Matrice de la Truye
    aa. Le vagina
    b. La vulve
    c. La vescie
    dddd. Les cornes de la matrice
    ee. Les trompes ou tubae fallopianae
    ff. L’extremite des trompes dilatées embrassant les ovaires, & pleines de la liqueur.
    g. Apendix des trompes.
    hh. Les arteries de l’uterus.
    iiii. Les oeufs comme ils sortent de l’ovaire.
    kk. Une des trompes detachée de partie de l’ovaire.
    Related fellows
    David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    Paul Buissiere (1650 - 1739, French ) , Surgeon
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          > United Kingdom
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       > Europe
          > France
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