Illuminating system
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
Content object
Description
Study of an illuminating or lighting system, composed of an open flame suspended on one arm, and a globe full of clear water on the other. The light passed through the water was often used to illuminate the specimens of microscopic study.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XV.’
Inscribed below: ‘A. W. Winterschmidt Sculs et excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La lampe pour les observations nocturnes’ [‘The lamp for nocturnal observations’], and the description is short, with the author commenting that ‘Vous en trouveres de vous meme beaucoup mieux l'usage, que je ne saurois vous l'indiquer par ecrit’ [‘You will find many more uses for it than I can commit to you in writing’].
Plate 15 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: XV.’
Inscribed below: ‘A. W. Winterschmidt Sculs et excud.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘La lampe pour les observations nocturnes’ [‘The lamp for nocturnal observations’], and the description is short, with the author commenting that ‘Vous en trouveres de vous meme beaucoup mieux l'usage, que je ne saurois vous l'indiquer par ecrit’ [‘You will find many more uses for it than I can commit to you in writing’].
Plate 15 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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