Ox tongue
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
Section of boiled ox tongue, as viewed by microscope.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: VIII.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. L. del. A. W. W. sc et exc.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Contient le bout d'une langue de boeuf bouillie’ [‘Contains the top of boiled beef tongue’].
The author describes the tongue as follows: ‘est la partie la plus basse du bout de la langue, grossie, apres en avoir leve premierement la peau visqueuse b); puis la pellicule tres mince qui est au dessous de celle ci c), laquelle est toute entrelacee de veines tres delies’ [‘is the lowest part of the tip of the tongue, enlarged, after first lifting the viscous skin b); then the very thin film which is below this one c), which is all entwined with very loose veins’.]
Plate 8 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.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: VIII.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. L. del. A. W. W. sc et exc.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Contient le bout d'une langue de boeuf bouillie’ [‘Contains the top of boiled beef tongue’].
The author describes the tongue as follows: ‘est la partie la plus basse du bout de la langue, grossie, apres en avoir leve premierement la peau visqueuse b); puis la pellicule tres mince qui est au dessous de celle ci c), laquelle est toute entrelacee de veines tres delies’ [‘is the lowest part of the tip of the tongue, enlarged, after first lifting the viscous skin b); then the very thin film which is below this one c), which is all entwined with very loose veins’.]
Plate 8 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.
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