Animalcules
Date
1766
Creator
Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
After
Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
48660
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Description
Study of three varieties of animalcule:
a) c), b) d) Water spiders viewed at life size and under magnification respectively. Referred to as Araignee d’Eau.
e) f) Stentor viewed at life size and under magnification respectively. Referred to here as the Animalcule a trompette [‘Trumpet animalcule’].
Inscribed above: ‘TAB. LXXXIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘TABLE LXXXIII. Trois Especes d’Animalcules d’Eau limonneuse’ [‘Three species of saltwater animalcules’]. Written in the associated text: ‘Les creatures gravees sur cette 83rd Estampe se trouvent presque dans toutes les Eaux dormantes & marecageuses’. [‘The creatures engraved on this 83rd print can be found in almost all stagnant & swamp waters…’].
Plate 83 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1764).
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
a) c), b) d) Water spiders viewed at life size and under magnification respectively. Referred to as Araignee d’Eau.
e) f) Stentor viewed at life size and under magnification respectively. Referred to here as the Animalcule a trompette [‘Trumpet animalcule’].
Inscribed above: ‘TAB. LXXXIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘TABLE LXXXIII. Trois Especes d’Animalcules d’Eau limonneuse’ [‘Three species of saltwater animalcules’]. Written in the associated text: ‘Les creatures gravees sur cette 83rd Estampe se trouvent presque dans toutes les Eaux dormantes & marecageuses’. [‘The creatures engraved on this 83rd print can be found in almost all stagnant & swamp waters…’].
Plate 83 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1764).
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
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