Silver salts and peas
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 silver salts as viewed by microscope, under magnification, Fig. 1., and study of various insects as found in a box of peas, the author explains: ‘about a month ago, a friend of mine sent me a couple of peas from Nuremberg […] each pea contained a small live snail […]’.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB. XCIX.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Configuration & Cristaux de la Solution de l'Argent’ [‘Configuration & Crystallisation of Silver Solution’], and: ‘Observation particuliere faite sur des pois ou l'on a troube une espece d'escarbot a croix’ [‘Particular observation made on peas where a species of snail was found’].
Plate 99 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. XCIX.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Configuration & Cristaux de la Solution de l'Argent’ [‘Configuration & Crystallisation of Silver Solution’], and: ‘Observation particuliere faite sur des pois ou l'on a troube une espece d'escarbot a croix’ [‘Particular observation made on peas where a species of snail was found’].
Plate 99 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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