Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19956

    Fly uterus

    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
       > Entomology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    Description
    Microscopic study of a female fly’s uterus, with eggs, referred to in the associated text as the ‘boyau de la ponte’ [‘egg-laying gut’].

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXXIV.’
    Inscribed below: 'M. F. Ledermuller delin. A. W. Winterschmidt sculp et execudit Nuremburg'.

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Le boyau de la ponte d'une mouche femelle’ [‘The egg-laying gut of a female fly’].

    Plate 34 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.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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