Straw
Date
1768
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 straw as viewed by microscope, with a detail of the hexagonal structure under more intense magnification in the bottom left (as viewed).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: III.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. Ledrmuller del: A. W. Winterschmidt sc et exc’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Un petit Rond d’un Brin de Paille’ [‘A small circle of a bit of straw’].
Plate 3 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, 1768).
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.
John Cuff (c.1708-c.1772), English optician and scientific instrument maker, particularly of microscopes.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: III.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. Ledrmuller del: A. W. Winterschmidt sc et exc’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Un petit Rond d’un Brin de Paille’ [‘A small circle of a bit of straw’].
Plate 3 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, 1768).
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.
John Cuff (c.1708-c.1772), English optician and scientific instrument maker, particularly of microscopes.
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