Plant stems
Date
1675
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Physician
Object type
Library reference
54269
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 362 mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 310mm
width (plate): 217mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 310mm
width (plate): 217mm
Subject
Description
Sectional studies of the stems of seven plant species viewed under magnification, including:
Figure 25 [upper left]: Cypress tree, Cupressus, referred to by Malpighi as the same.
Figure 26 [upper middle]: Oak tree, Quercus, referred to as the same.
Figure 27 [centre left]: Poplar tree, Populus, referred to as Populi.
Figure 28 and 31 [centre and upper right illustrations]: Artichoke, Cinara, referred to as the same.
Figure 29 [lower left]: Black mulberry tree, Morus, referred to as Moro.
Figure 30 [lower right]: Danewort, Ebulum, referred to as Ebulo.
Inscribed ‘TAB. VII’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 7 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Figure 25 [upper left]: Cypress tree, Cupressus, referred to by Malpighi as the same.
Figure 26 [upper middle]: Oak tree, Quercus, referred to as the same.
Figure 27 [centre left]: Poplar tree, Populus, referred to as Populi.
Figure 28 and 31 [centre and upper right illustrations]: Artichoke, Cinara, referred to as the same.
Figure 29 [lower left]: Black mulberry tree, Morus, referred to as Moro.
Figure 30 [lower right]: Danewort, Ebulum, referred to as Ebulo.
Inscribed ‘TAB. VII’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 7 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Object history
Anatome Plantarum was a much-anticipated work and, along with Nehemiah Grew FRS (1641-1712), earned Malpighi acclaim as founder of the microscopic study of plant anatomy.
His research was encouraged and supervised by the Royal Society, as evidenced by correspondence between him and the then-Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (1619-1677) in the 1660s and 1670s [MS/103/1]. An abstracted version of his work in this area was first read at a Society meeting on 7 December 1671 [JBO/4, pp.216-217]. The full manuscript of Anatome Plantarum, together with the frontispiece artwork and these plates, was received and read on 28 January 1674/75 [MS/103/1-2].
It was ordered for printing by the Society’s printer John Martin in June 1675 [CMO/1/221]. The published work consists of the text of Anatome Plantarum, De ovo incubato, and 61 plates illustrating each [54 and 7 respectively]. A second part was sent by Malpighi to the Society in 1678 and published in 1679 as Anatomes plantarum pars altera [54271].
His research was encouraged and supervised by the Royal Society, as evidenced by correspondence between him and the then-Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (1619-1677) in the 1660s and 1670s [MS/103/1]. An abstracted version of his work in this area was first read at a Society meeting on 7 December 1671 [JBO/4, pp.216-217]. The full manuscript of Anatome Plantarum, together with the frontispiece artwork and these plates, was received and read on 28 January 1674/75 [MS/103/1-2].
It was ordered for printing by the Society’s printer John Martin in June 1675 [CMO/1/221]. The published work consists of the text of Anatome Plantarum, De ovo incubato, and 61 plates illustrating each [54 and 7 respectively]. A second part was sent by Malpighi to the Society in 1678 and published in 1679 as Anatomes plantarum pars altera [54271].
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