Plant flowers
Date
1675
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Biologist
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 flowers of various plant species viewed under magnification, including:
Figure 167 [upper left]: Lily, Lilium, peach tree, Prunus persica, and buttercup, Ranunculus, referred to by Malpighi as Lilio, Malo armeniaca, and Ranunculo.
Figure 168 [upper centre and right]: White dittany, Dictamnus albus, referred to as Dictamni albi.
Figure 169 [centre left]: Passiflora, referred to as Maracot Indorum.
Figure 170 [centre right]: Pumpkin, Curcubita, referred to as the same.
Figure 171 [lower left]: Iris, referred to as Iride.
Figure 172 [lower centre]: Birthwort, Aristolochia, referred to as Aristolochiae longae.
Figure 173 [lower right]: Primrose, Primula vulgaris, referred to as Primula veris.
Figure 174 [centre right]: Grape vine, Vitis, and Persian lily, Fritillaria persica, referred to as Vite and Lilio Persico respectively.
Inscribed: ‘Tab. XXIX’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 29 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum; cui subjungitur Appendix […] (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Figure 167 [upper left]: Lily, Lilium, peach tree, Prunus persica, and buttercup, Ranunculus, referred to by Malpighi as Lilio, Malo armeniaca, and Ranunculo.
Figure 168 [upper centre and right]: White dittany, Dictamnus albus, referred to as Dictamni albi.
Figure 169 [centre left]: Passiflora, referred to as Maracot Indorum.
Figure 170 [centre right]: Pumpkin, Curcubita, referred to as the same.
Figure 171 [lower left]: Iris, referred to as Iride.
Figure 172 [lower centre]: Birthwort, Aristolochia, referred to as Aristolochiae longae.
Figure 173 [lower right]: Primrose, Primula vulgaris, referred to as Primula veris.
Figure 174 [centre right]: Grape vine, Vitis, and Persian lily, Fritillaria persica, referred to as Vite and Lilio Persico respectively.
Inscribed: ‘Tab. XXIX’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 29 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum; cui subjungitur Appendix […] (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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