Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19707

    Veal and ox tongue

    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
       > Zoology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Description
    Three studies of veal and ox tongue:

    Fig. A. Section of boiled veal tongue, showing the taste buds at the root of the tongue, at life-size;
    Fig. B. Section of fresh ox tongue, showing the taste buds, viewed by microscope;
    Fig. C. Section showing the lingual papillae to which the roots of the taste buds hold, viewed by microscope. The author explains that: ‘les Grandes sont les cavites qu'y ont laise les papilles, quand on les en a arrachees’ [‘the large cavities are those that the taste buds left when they were torn out’].

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB. XCIV.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Observations microscopiques, faites sur des Langues de Veau & de Boeuf’ [‘Microscopic observations on Tongues of Veal and Beef’].

    Plate 94 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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