Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19705

    Thistle anatomy

    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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Description
    Study of various parts of a thistle, including:

    a) b) The flower head;
    c) d) e) Bracts;
    f) g) h) i) Individual petals;
    k) l) Pappus;
    m) n) o) Stem.

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB. CXII.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Les Étamines et autres Parties antheriques du Chardon’ [‘The Stamen and Other Parts of a Thistle’].

    Plate 92 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.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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