Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19709

    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
    The tongue as seen by the naked eye from below, Fig. G., and above, Fig. K., and viewed by microscope., Fig. H., J., L.

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB. XCVI.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Conclusion des Observations sur la Langue’ [‘Conclusions on Observations of the Tongue’]. The author remarks: ‘Apres avoir fait voir par dehors la peau aux papilles de la langue, autant que l'espace la pu permettre; qu'il me soit permis de la montrer par dedans, en quoi elle ne donnera pas un Spectale moins agreable a voir’ [‘Having shown the skin to the papillae of the tongue, as far as space allowed; allow me to show it from below, in which it will not be less of a spectacle’].

    Plate 96 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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