Eel scale
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
The scale of an eel at life-size a) and viewed by microscope, under magnification e). Also, a section of skin b) and skin after having been soaked and scraped c) d), viewed by microscope.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB. XCIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Ecaille d'Anguille’ [‘Scale of an eel’]. The author states that: ‘Car ayant laisse un peu de peau une heure dans l'eau, l'ayant ensuite raclee avec un Canif, & puis ayant expose ce peu de Peau avec la loupe a la lumiere, je le vis couvert de Taches brunes & de petits Points’ [‘Having left a little skin for an hour in the water, then having scraped it off with a penknife, and then having exposed this little skin with the magnifying glass to the light, I saw it covered with brown spots & small dots’.]
Plate 93 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.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB. XCIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Ecaille d'Anguille’ [‘Scale of an eel’]. The author states that: ‘Car ayant laisse un peu de peau une heure dans l'eau, l'ayant ensuite raclee avec un Canif, & puis ayant expose ce peu de Peau avec la loupe a la lumiere, je le vis couvert de Taches brunes & de petits Points’ [‘Having left a little skin for an hour in the water, then having scraped it off with a penknife, and then having exposed this little skin with the magnifying glass to the light, I saw it covered with brown spots & small dots’.]
Plate 93 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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