Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19946

    Dissecting table

    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
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    Description
    Study of the back of a stage plate for the dissection of frogs, designed by Johann Lieberkühn, with a tripod stand and two details of ‘deux petits chapeaux avec les lentilles microscopiques’ [‘two small caps with microscopic lenses’].

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXIV.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘La celebre machine anatomique microscopique de l'invention de l'immortel Mr. le. D. Lieberkuhn de Berlin’ [‘The famous microscopic anatomical machine, invented by the immortal Mr. le. D. Lieberkuhn from Berlin’].

    Plate 24 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.

    Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), German physician, designed the original form of this dissecting table.
    Associated place
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