Coffee bean
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 a coffee bean showing the sponge-like interior of the bean as viewed by microscope, and other studies.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB. XCVIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Germe du Caffee’ [‘Coffee bean’]. The author compares his observations on the coffee bean to those of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’s: ‘Leeuwenhoek n'a fait aussi aucune mention des globules de seve, qui remplissent par millions tout le germe & gui j'ai marques ici autant que j'ai pu’ [‘Leeuwenhoek also made no mention of the globules of sap, which fill by the millions all the bean & which I have marked here as much as I could..’].
Plate 98 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. XCVIII.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Germe du Caffee’ [‘Coffee bean’]. The author compares his observations on the coffee bean to those of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’s: ‘Leeuwenhoek n'a fait aussi aucune mention des globules de seve, qui remplissent par millions tout le germe & gui j'ai marques ici autant que j'ai pu’ [‘Leeuwenhoek also made no mention of the globules of sap, which fill by the millions all the bean & which I have marked here as much as I could..’].
Plate 98 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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